Sperling's Best Places recently ranked the best places to live in the country. The top ten include:
- Charlottesville, VA
- Santa Fe, NM
- San Luis Obispo- Atascadero- Paso Robles, CA
- Santa Barbara- Santa Maria -Lompoc, CA
- Honolulu, HI
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Atlanta, GA
- Asheville, NC
- Reno, NV
- Corvallis, OR
According to Sperling - Corvallis is home to Oregon State University and therefore many young singles. Hewlett-Packard has a major presence here causing low unemployment rate and impressive recent job growth. With Corvallis being a college town and a computer company residing, it's a very intellectual town. A fifth of the people who choose Corvallis as their home have earned a graduate or professional degree. Pacific Northwest weather is temperate with very pleasant but not crazy hot summers are sublime and the winters are mild but wet. The Oregon coast is a 90 minutes to the west for biking or kite flying and the nearby Cascade range offers great skiing. If you get the urge to visit a big city, Portland is about 100 miles to the North. Considering it's affordability ($194,800 median home price), Corvallis presents an attractive mix of youth, intellectualism, and natural beauty.
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