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USA TODAY, March '04 Number one place to live in USA.March 30, 2004
Charlottesville Rated Best Place to Live in America
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA ' Frommer's Cities Ranked and Rated has named Charlottesville the Best Place to Live in America! The new publication rated over 400 cities in the United States and Canada in ten different categories, and found that Charlottesville attained the top overall rating.
The ten evaluated categories included Economy & Jobs, Cost of Living, Climate, Education, Health & Healthcare, Crime, Transportation, Leisure, Arts & Culture and overall Quality of Life.
'We are thrilled to be recognized as the best place to live in our great country,' said Mayor Maurice Cox. 'The residents of our area are the critical element in making Charlottesville a wonderful community, and from a local government perspective, we are simply honored to play a role in maintaining our city's high quality of life.'
According to the book, Charlottesville has 'a special mix of college-town and historic amenities and is clean and heavily shaded.'
The rankings were released in the USA Today newspaper this morning and live on The Today Show on NBC.
The top ten cities in the book are (1)Charlottesville, VA - (2)Santa Fe, NM - (3)San Luis Obispo, CA - (4)Santa Maria-Lompoc - (5)Honolulu, HI - (6)Ann Arbor, MI - (7)Atlanta, GA - (8)Asheville, NC - (9)Reno, NV - (10)Corvallis,

READER'S DIGEST, April '97
Named Charlottesville #7 out top 50 Best Places to Raise a Family

KIPLINGER'S PERSONAL FINANCE MAGAZINE Sept.'96 Named Charlottesville #2 out the Top 10 Healthiest Places to Live

GOLF DIGEST April '97 Ranked Albemarle County as the #1 Best Place for Golfers to Retire!

WHERE TO RETIRE MAGAZINE Charlottesville has landed on a national publication's list of the best places for retirees to live, adding to a host of similar honors the area has received in recent years. In its current special issue, Where to Retire Magazine calls Charlottesville one of America's 100 best retirement towns, citing the University of Virginia, the Blue Ridge Mountains and the city's historic Downtown Mall among local attractions. The magazine quotes area couple Brian and Jean Mandeville, Minneapolis natives who moved to Central Virginia. 'We fell in love with Charlottesville,' Brian Mandeville is quoted as saying. 'The size of the town, its four-season climate, its topography, the general environment, charm and heritage.' Jean Mandeville points to 'the wonderful grand, friendly, well-mannered people.' According to city spokesman Maurice Jones, Charlottesville has become a fixture on similar lists in recent years. The city was named the second-best college town in the country for retirees by Modern Maturity, which also called it one of the 50 most active places in the nation. Further, Charlottesville has gained repeated recognition as one of Money Magazine's, 'Best Places in America', and Jones said A & E Television has named the city on of the 10 cities in the nation that 'have it all.' 'I think what really drives this type of thing is the quality of life,' Jones said. 'We have good people in this area who care about their community, we have relatively low crime rates and we have a nice mix of cosmopolitan life with suburban and rural lifestyles.'

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Charlottesville Virginia is the place where privacy is respected, where Southern gentility, even chivalry still thrives, and, perhaps above all, where the land rolls away toward the mountains in the west with a beauty that snatches the breath at the top of each crest and the bottom of each vale.

CNN MONEY
Central Virgina real estate is the best place to live and raise children in Virginia.

TENNIS MAGAZINE
Charlottesville is number one tennis town in America.

TOWN&COUNTRY
The Charlottesville area is subliminally idyllic...Virginia is where we long to be.

GOLF MAGAZINE
Unsurpassed in beauty and splendor...Central Virginia golf is destined to be king.