Seriously, Forbes ranked the top 25…is there anything Forbes won’t rank? Yet, I am a sucker and watched the slide show. I’ll speed it up for you a bit and provide the top 5:
- Boulder, CO
- Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, MD
- Ithaca, NY
- ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
- Corvallis, OR
I won’t mention which one of those towns is my hometown…well, I spent the first 5 years of my life there. Lee says that doesn’t count. Unfortunately for him, the Twin Cities did not make the list.
In all seriousness, I’m not sure if there is much value to this type of list. Clearly the top towns are host to a major university which stands to reason they would have a higher rating. The mildly interesting point to me is how these different college towns rated against each other.