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Hot Springs - it has a really good downtown for a small city, a great thoroughbred racing park (one of the best), casino, and the area around the lakes is beautiful. Oh, and it's a national park.
Yes, I've been there and was well impressed with how it was different. There, I saw the two modest homes where former President Clinton lived when young.
By the OP's definition of under 50,000 I would definitely say Charlottesville (population 47,266) is the best small city in Virginia. Very well educated, home to one of the nations top universities, a thriving pedestrian-oriented downtown mall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Monticello), a big brewery scene (nine breweries in the city limits), lots of great shopping and even has a Wegmans, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods, close to some of the most beautiful natural scenery on the east coast, one of the most bike friendly cities in VA, surrounded by Virginia's wine country, a top rated hospital system, and a really great culinary scene. Only drawback IMO is the cost of living/buying a home is very expensive there for its location and size.
Honorable mentions:
Lexington, VA
Williamsburg, VA
Winchester, VA
WOW, sounds like a lot better town than Stillwater. Stillwater only has one beer brewery. No Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, though does have Sprouts. An hour's drive to Oklahoma City or Tulsa well makes up for the lacks, though.
WOW, sounds like a lot better town than Stillwater. Stillwater only has one beer brewery. No Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, though does have Sprouts. An hour's drive to Oklahoma City or Tulsa well makes up for the lacks, though.
Charlottesville punches above its weight (in a manner of speaking) because it has a large university. So while the official population may be below 50,000, the functional population is likely higher. Not to mention, the university I'm sure has a big workforce of highly paid faculty.
It's different from a single industry manufacturing town or blue collar bedroom community of similar size.
For Ohio, I think Findlay(pop. 41,000) is the best small city. Unlike many small Ohio cities that have been decimated by the loss of heavy manufacturing, Findlay has a varied economic base and is doing well. It is the headquarters for Cooper Tire, has the main office for Marathon Petroleum, has a Whirlpool dishwasher plant that employs 2600 people, and the University of Findlay with about 3,000 students. The downtown area is in good shape and there is a lot of development along the I-75 corridor. Those wanting a larger city can go 45 minutes north to Toledo or an hour and a half southeast to Columbus.
my bad i was going by the last census numbers.Gruene is considered part of New Braunfels now according to wikipedia.
I also like Port Aransas,Ingleside,Ozona,Junction,Kerrville,Frederi cksburg,Marble Falls,Lllano,Lampassas and Belton.
Is cool, I was surprised by how much San Marcos has grown too.
It doesn't matter that Gruene is part of an MSA, the OP stated that just as long as the city proper is below 50k.
I like Port Aransas, junction I haven't been to in like 18 years so I'm not very familiar anymore.
I like Fredericksburg and Marble falls too.
TN: A tie between Sewanee and Cookeville. Cookeville is one of the best 20,000-50,000 population cities in the country with a lot of community pride. Sewanee is a small and very charming college town that is nestled in the Cumberland Plateau. In a way kinda like a smaller Berea.
Cookeville and Sewanee would be my choices for Tennessee, too.
The village of Sewanee is synonymous with the University of the South, an Episcopal college founded a few years before the Civil War. The village has a population of around 2,300 while the university has an enrollment of about 1,800 on a gorgeous campus of 13,000 acres about an hour outside of Chattanooga.
Cookeville is also an attractive college town but quite a bit larger than Sewanee. It's surrounded by over 100 waterfalls and 1,200 miles of lakeshore within 40 minutes of town. It's become "noticed" and has been attracting people from all over the place these last few years. Being an hour from Nashville and a lot more affordable than Nashville probably helps. Being home to the state's flagship technological university has helped attract a lot of industry to town, too, which has added to the recent surge in population and commercial development.
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