CITIES . . . THE BEST, THE WORST, AND ANDY'S FAVORITE
Andy Griffith was always hopping into the car with Opie and "going to Raleigh," and according to Money magazine, maybe we should, too. The Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area tops Money's eighth annual "Best Places to Live in America" list. The Chamber of Commerce ought to be happy: Fortune magazine, also published by Time Inc., ranked the area as the nation's best business spot earlier this year. Rounding out the Top 10: Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Seattle, Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Albuquerque, N.M. At the bottom: small Midwestern cities like Jackson, Mich., home of that state's largest prison.
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