Dec. 11, 1996

Almanac puts Orange County on top in livability

BEST (AND WORST) PLACES TO LIVE

Here are the top 24 places to live
and the city at the very bottom of the
metropolitan-hospitability barrell,
according to the new edition of the
Places Rated Almanac

1. ORANGE COUNTY
2. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash.
3. Houston
4. Washington, DC
5. Phoenix-Mesa, Arizona
6. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.
7. Atlanta
8. Tampa-St.Petersburg_Clearwater, Fla.
9. San Diego
10. Philadelphia
11. San Jose
12. Long Island, NY
13. Riverside-San Bernardino
14. Pittsburgh
15. Toronto, Canada
16. Portland, OR-Vancouver, Wash.
17. Oakland, CA 18. Denver
19. Cincinnati
20. San Francisco
21. Detroit
22. Dallas
       Miami (tied)
25. Cleveland

352. Mansfield, Ohio

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Source: University of Washington

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