Eden Prairie, Minnesota is the best place to live in the United States, according to Money Magazine’s 2010 list. The small city of 64,000 topped the list of 100 cities ranked based on housing prices, financial growth and quality of life.
Eden Prairie’s main employers include Fortune 500 trucking company C.H. Robinson and hearing-aid manufacturer Starkey Labs. The Minnesota Vikings also call Eden Prairie home and are one of the town’s leading employers. The city has an unemployment rate of 5.1 percent, beating the national average.
Apart for its industrial bounty, Eden Prairie’s landscape is dotted with 17 lakes that are used year-round. Town parks’ 125 miles of paths and bike trails also accommodate residents’ outdoor activities. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Eden Prairie’s populace is among the healthiest in the nation.
The highest ranked of the five New York towns that made the list was Clarkstown at 41. (Amherst ranked 42; White Plains ranked 53; New Rochelle ranked 82; Ramapo ranked 88)
Not one Long Island town, village or hamlet made the list.
