Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Everyone wants to live in Colorado Springs
We just hate to brag, but …
Actually, we quite enjoy boasting about Colorado Springs and the surrounding region. It has become nearly impossible to explain why anyone would want to live anywhere else. The economy is booming, the sun shines 300 days a year, and magazines constantly put us on lists of the most desirable places to start businesses, the best places for 20-somethings to date, the healthiest population, etc., etc.
The latest ranking is a big one.
U.S. News & World Report, the official authority in best-of rankings, used a sophisticated algorithm of Google survey data to determine the desirability of America’s 100 largest cities. The rankings are based on where people would most want to live if they could choose.
Colorado Springs finished second, just behind Honolulu. It came in ahead of Denver, New York, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.
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