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Apr
6
2009
Little Rock Among Forbes' Most Livable Cities
Posted at 11:23:24 AM by Lance Turner 0 comments

Forbes magazine has once again published some great linkbait. This time, it's a list of "America's Most Livable Cities." The Little Rock MSA ranked No. 15. Portland, Maine, is No. 1.

What's the criteria for making the list? 

To form our list, we looked at quality of life measures in the nation's largest continental U.S. metropolitan statistical areas--geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for use by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics. We eliminated areas with populations smaller than 500,000 and assigned points to the remaining metro regions across five data sets: Five-year income growth per household and cost of living from Moody's Economy.com, crime data and leisure index from Sperling's Best Places, and annual unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Click here to see Little Rock's profile, along with a lovely shot of the state Capitol parking lot. Picturesque!

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