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Old 08-20-2012, 04:19 PM
 
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America's best small cities (pop. 50,000 to 300,000).

Best Places to Live 2012 - Yahoo! Finance

1. Carmel, IN
2. McKinney, TX
3. Eden Prairie, MN
4. Newton, MA
5. Redmond, WA
6. Irvine, CA
7. Reston, VA
8. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
9. Overland Park, KS
10. Chapel Hill, NC
11. Woodbury, MN
12. Fishers, IN
13. Allen, TX
14. Eagan, MN
15. Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
16. Castle Rock, CO
17. Centreville, VA
18. South Jordan, UT
19. Lakeville, MN
20. Waldorf, MD

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Old 08-20-2012, 04:39 PM
 
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I hate those lists, they never make any sense.

Who dreams about moving to Eagan, Minnesota for example
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Old 08-20-2012, 07:51 PM
 
Location: Atlanta & NYC
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I've only heard of 2 of those places in that list. What a bunch of bologna.
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Old 08-20-2012, 08:38 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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Don't let Broadrippleguy see this
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Old 08-20-2012, 09:00 PM
 
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I was in Carmel yesterday spending the day at a friends community pool a part of one of many gorgeous and affordable sub divisions in Carmel. Then we went to the nearby hamilton town square. This is actually in Fishers IN the city next door and another city that shows up on these "best" lists. Lovely well layed out neighborhoods, clean streets, newly paved roads, great schools quaint little and big shopping centers. North Indianapolsi really is a nice place to live and raise a family

I could have bought there but im a country boy and found a nice place on a country lake for about what it would have taken to live in Carmel.
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Old 08-20-2012, 10:09 PM
 
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I hate those lists, they never make any sense.

Who dreams about moving to Eagan, Minnesota for example
People who like great schools, and proximity to ridiculously high-paying jobs?
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Old 08-20-2012, 10:10 PM
 
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I've only heard of 2 of those places in that list. What a bunch of bologna.
I get the impression you haven't heard of very many places outside of New York, though, so that doesn't really surprise me...
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Old 08-20-2012, 10:12 PM
 
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Don't let Broadrippleguy see this
Carmel is the fastest growing suburb in the Northeast Quadrant, according to fakenews.com...
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Old 08-20-2012, 10:14 PM
 
Location: Atlanta & NYC
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I get the impression you haven't heard of very many places outside of New York, though, so that doesn't really surprise me...
Why does everyone assume that just because my freakin' location thing says New York? I've been all along the East Coast but the only Western state I've been to is Colorado...oh and Ohio when I was younger. Sorry that I have never lived outside the East Coast and have no family out that way that I'm in contact with. I bet a lot of people like me don't have a clue where Carmel, IN is.
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Old 08-20-2012, 10:17 PM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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Most of these cities are suburbs of other places and/or part of MSA's/CSA's in which those amenities contribute to their scores. For me, that makes these narrowly defined lists sort of bogus.
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