Top 100 finalists 2005 CNN Money Magazine Top 100 places to live in the U.S.A Rank Best place Pop.* Nearest city
1 Moorestown, NJ 20,700 Philadelphia
2 Bainbridge Island, WA 21,600 Seattle
3 Naperville, IL 163,900 Chicago
4 Vienna, VA 61,700 Washington, DC
5 Louisville, CO 32,400 Boulder
6 Barrington, RI 16,800 Providence
7 Middleton, WI 21,400 Madison
8 Peachtree City, GA 35,800 Atlanta
9 Chatham, NJ 17,600 New York City
10 Mill Valley, CA 29,200 San Francisco
11 Larchmont, NY 18,200 New York City
12 Greenwich, CT 62,000 Stamford
13 Westwood, MA 14,500 Boston
14 Blue Bell, PA 19,700 Philadelphia
15 Princeton, NJ 48,700 Trenton
16 Chanhassen, MN 22,100 Minneapolis
17 Gaithersburg, MD 132,500 Washington, DC
18 Powell, OH 30,300 Columbus
19 Mequon-Thiensville, WI 23,400 Milwaukee
20 Ellicott City, MD 72,000 Baltimore
21 Yorba Linda, CA 64,400 Los Angeles
22 Delmar, NY 16,300 Albany
23 Papillion, NE 27,400 Omaha
24 Fishers, IN 48,900 Indianapolis
25 Coronado, CA 23,800 San Diego
26 Saratoga, CA 30,600 San Jose
27 Redmond, WA 64,000 Seattle
28 Wexford, PA 18,300 Pittsburgh
29 Tolland, CT 14,400 Hartford
30 Overland Park, KS 160,400 Kansas City
31 Hopewell Junction, NY 24,100 New York City
32 Evans, GA 27,600 Augusta, GA
33 Yorktown, VA 41,800 Newport News, VA
34 Cary, NC 115,300 Raleigh
35 Scottsdale, AZ 289,400 Phoenix
36 Westborough, MA 19,600 Worcester, MA
37 Midlothian, VA 74,300 Richmond
38 Olive Branch, MS 35,000 Memphis
39 Rochester, MI 92,100 Detroit
40 Colleyville, TX 22,600 Dallas
41 East Amherst, NY 18,500 Buffalo
42 Solon, OH 22,200 Cleveland
43 Saline, MI 19,600 Ann Arbor
44 West Linn, OR 26,900 Portland, OR
45 West Chester, OH 58,100 Cincinnati
46 Sugar Land, TX 134,700 Houston
47 Hudson, OH 24,200 Akron
48 Boerne, TX 29,400 San Antonio
49 Merrimack, NH 27,200 Manchester, NH
50 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 35,400 Jacksonville
51 Centerville, UT 15,200 Salt Lake City
52 Crestwood, KY 16,700 Louisville, KY
53 Urbandale, IA 36,800 Des Moines
54 American Fork, UT 33,700 Provo, UT
55 Madison, MS 26,400 Jackson, MS
56 Trussville, AL 19,700 Birmingham
57 Colchester, CT 16,000 Hartford
58 Franklin, TN 77,900 Nashville
59 Hockessin, DE 17,200 Philadelphia
60 Riverton, UT 36,100 Salt Lake City
61 Hummelstown, PA 19,600 Baltimore
62 Fairport, NY 41,200 Rochester, NY
63 Lutz, FL 52,700 Tampa
64 Ballwin, MO 94,100 St. Louis, Mo.
65 Aptos, CA 23,600 San Jose
66 Santa Barbara, CA 134,800 Los Angeles
67 New Milford, CT 26,800 Waterbury, CT
68 Chino Hills, CA 77,500 Pomona, CA
69 Uniontown, OH 24,300 Akron
70 Hollywood, FL 416,600 Miami
71 Newbury Park, CA 39,200 Thousand Oaks
72 Hackettstown, NJ 28,700 Allentown, PA
73 Rochester, MN 105,900 Minneapolis
74 Meridian, ID 52,900 Boise City, Idaho
75 DeWitt, MI 14,800 Lansing
76 Huntersville, NC 33,500 Charlotte, NC
77 Lees Summit, MO 81,100 Kansas City, MO
78 Guilford, CT 22,000 New Haven, CT
79 Burlington, KY 18,500 Cincinnati
80 Northampton, MA 29,300 Springfield, MA
81 Benicia, CA 28,100 Vallejo, CA
82 Canfield, OH 20,200 Akron
83 Rio Rancho, NM 59,000 Albuquerque
84 Sioux Falls, SD 140,000 Minneapolis
85 Salem, NH 29,200 Boston
86 Lake Mary, FL 34,100 Orlando
87 Cedar Rapids, IA 132,100 Chicago
88 Petaluma, CA 71,400 Santa Rosa, CA
89 Mansfield, MA 24,400 Providence
90 Charlottesville, VA 100,000 Richmond
91 Vancouver, WA 284,300 Portland, OR
92 Durham, NC 231,300 Raleigh
93 Lincoln, CA 23,100 Roseville
94 Kenosha, WI 108,600 Chicago
95 York, PA 157,400 Baltimore
96 Daphne, AL 21,400 Mobile
97 Dyer, IN 16,800 Gary, IN
98 Manlius, NY 32,400 Syracuse
99 Caledonia, MI 14,600 Grand Rapids
100 Clemmons, NC 24,000 Winston-Salem, NC
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