Best Places to Live Money's list of America's best small cities.

[rki999]

Best Places Winners ? Easy Living ? 1 Carmel, IN $120,714 7.00% 3.40%-3.40% $1,518 26.44% 2 McKinney, TX $95,233 6.25% 0.00%-0.00% $1,492 147.12% 3 Eden Prairie, MN $116,085 6.88% 5.35%-7.85% $1,614 12.39% 4 Newton, MA $145,639 6.25% 5.30%-5.30% N.A. -0.91% 5 Redmond, WA $107,408 6.50% 0.00%-0.00% $1,584 13.27% 6 Irvine, CA $116,232 7.25% 1.00%-9.30% $1,991 41.58% 7 Reston, VA $131,559 5.00% 2.00%-5.75% $1,237 1.06% 8 Ellicott City, MD $132,197 6.00% 2.00%-5.50% $1,807 18.30% 8 Columbia, MD $117,086 6.00% 2.00%-5.50% $1,807 1.04% 9 Overland Park, KS $97,634 6.30% 3.50%-6.45% $1,461 13.46% 10 Chapel Hill, NC $105,327 4.75% 6.00%-7.75% $1,154 4.34%

[jjgold]

Chapel Hill might be nice but that is about it for me on that list.

[dodger33]

JJ have you ever been to Southern California?

[Wojo]

Overland Park, Ks a small city? It is the largest suburb of metro Kansas City with a population of 173,000 in 2010.

It is the second largest city in Kansas.

[flyingillini]

You can't beat Santa Barbara, pound for pound it's the best place to live in the United States.

[tony_come]

Las Vegas, nv

[Dutch]

Overland Park, Ks a small city? It is the largest suburb of metro Kansas City with a population of 173,000 in 2010.

It is the second largest city in Kansas.

173,000 pop. is a big city?

[chipper]

Most of those places are just too dang cold in the winter!

[outtahere]

Kansas is for people who are too lazy to make it across the country

[irish1]

McKinney TX - 11% black, Reston VA-11 black, Chapel Hill, NC 10% black, Ellicott MD 8% black, Overland KS- 3% black, Carmel IN-2.9% black, Eden Prairie MN-2.3% black, Newton MA- 1.97% black, Redmond WA-1.5% black and Irvine CA-1.45% black. Just some facts to think about. Now which city out of those would you choose?

[irish1]

Coeur d'Alene Idaho is 97.6% white. Now that's hard to find anywhere.

[Wojo]

173,000 pop. is a big city?

They actually considered cities up to 300,000. I've been to Overland Park, KS many times and it always seemed huge to me. I'm probably adding in some of the other small cities & towns around Overland Park.