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steve2470

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Thu May 7, 2015, 10:23 AM May 2015

"The Most Livable Places at 50+", from dead tree AARP Bulletin for this month [View all]

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Most livable neighborhoods

1- Mifflin West, Madison, WI

2- Upper West Side, Manhattan

3- Downtown Crossing, Boston

4- South of Market, San Francisco

5- Washburn, La Crosse, WI

6- Downtown Sioux Falls, SD

7- Southside, Virginia, MN

8- Downtown Bismarck, ND

9- Downtown Seattle

10- Downtown Los Alamos, NM
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Most Livable Cities, Large

1- SF

2- Boston

3- Seattle

4- Milwaukee

5- NYC

6- Philly

7- Portland, OR

8- Denver

9- Washington DC

10- Baltimore

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Most Livable, Medium

1- Madison WI

2- St. Paul, MN

3- Sioux Falls, SD

4- Rochester, MN

5- Minneapolis, MN

6- Arlington, VA

7- Cedar Rapids, IA

8- Lincoln, NE

9- Fargo, ND

10- Cambridge MA

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Most Livable Cities, small

1- La Crosse, WI

2- Fitchburg, WI

3- Bismarck, ND

4- Sun Prairie, WI

5- Duluth, MN

6- Union City, NJ

7- Grand Island, NE

8- Kirkland, WA

9- Marion, IA

10- West Bend, WI

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This is done by AARP via their "AARP Livability Index". I don't know if this is online or not.

eta: http://www.aarp.org/home-family/your-home/best-places-to-live/?intcmp=BUBB3

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