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Best Places to Raise Your Kids, 2007

The 50 most kid-friendly small towns and suburbs in the U.S. -- where crime rates and cost of living are low, and schools, test scores, and cultural

By Douglas MacMillan

Rankings based on data collected by national real estate researcher OnBoard; Geographical distances based on Google Earth data; population and median household income based on 2000 U.S. Census Bureau data.