best towns around 60,000

[ManoftheNorth]

Originally Posted by jtur88

More than 60,000 live in two Traverse City postal codes, but most of them live in the urban townships outside the city limits. Traverse City is the only incorporated city in an otherwise rural county of 87,000. There are more than 10,000 students in the Traverse City School District.

Well, that's getting into city population vs urban area/metro population. They are two pretty different categories of cities.
If we are talking about metro areas around 60,000, I'd like to put in a good word for the city of Marquette, MI (city 21,355, metro 67,077). Largest city in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, has a cool historic downtown with lots of 19th century buildings. It's a college town, home to Northern Michigan University. It's probably more liberal then Traverse City.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by jtur88

More than 60,000 live in two Traverse City postal codes, but most of them live in the urban townships outside the city limits. Traverse City is the only incorporated city in an otherwise rural county of 87,000. There are more than 10,000 students in the Traverse City School District.

This gives an idea of the population within the Traverse City SD: Traverse City Area Public Schools

So, if an area like this is included, this changes things.