"Best Places to Live in Rural America"
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This is a first time list. Everyone has heard about the best places to live survey that ranks cities, but this one ranks rural counties.
Cecil County, Maryland ranks at # 83. Not too shabby! Guess what county Elkton, MD is in? Yeppir, Cecil County. We cracked the top 100. This is according to Progressive Farmer magazine which is a sister to Time Inc. publication, Money magazine.
They considered health care, education, climate, crime index, and tax burden. Then considered intangibles such as quality of life, leisure and cultural pursuits, and scenery.
Supposedly they also talked to residents in each county; "numbers can tell us a great deal about a place, but not as much as the people who live there".
It all sounds impressive doesn't it. Cecil county is in the Top 100.
But they must not have read our local paper or talked to one of our local judges. Here's why.
An Elkton man walked out of a detention center. The article said he eyed a pack of cigarettes on his way to the medical area of the jail when the door opened. The cigarettes were on the other side of the gate. The guy pushed a button to ask the gate to be opened, and to his surprise it was. He took the cigarettes and tried his luck one more time. Again, the next door opened and the inmate, who was being held on burglary charges, walked out of the detention center and headed home!
How's that for a fine place to live?
Cecil County, Maryland ranks at # 83. Not too shabby! Guess what county Elkton, MD is in? Yeppir, Cecil County. We cracked the top 100. This is according to Progressive Farmer magazine which is a sister to Time Inc. publication, Money magazine.
They considered health care, education, climate, crime index, and tax burden. Then considered intangibles such as quality of life, leisure and cultural pursuits, and scenery.
Supposedly they also talked to residents in each county; "numbers can tell us a great deal about a place, but not as much as the people who live there".
It all sounds impressive doesn't it. Cecil county is in the Top 100.
But they must not have read our local paper or talked to one of our local judges. Here's why.
An Elkton man walked out of a detention center. The article said he eyed a pack of cigarettes on his way to the medical area of the jail when the door opened. The cigarettes were on the other side of the gate. The guy pushed a button to ask the gate to be opened, and to his surprise it was. He took the cigarettes and tried his luck one more time. Again, the next door opened and the inmate, who was being held on burglary charges, walked out of the detention center and headed home!
How's that for a fine place to live?
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The only redeeming thing I can think of is that there is indeed lots of rolling land with nothing on it but trees which I suppose could be bought for the right price. And you can move a double wide onto it and sink you a ceptic tank if you're amind to. If you thinkin' of doin' it and you're fixin' to check on land, go 'head on.
Gene
"Though geographically large (it's twice the size, for instance, of Callaway County, Mo.), Grafton County is dominated by the White Mountain National Forest. So development isn't an issue. Lebanon, in the southwest corner of the county, ranked No. 3 in Norman Crampton's "The 100 Best Small Towns in America." The National Trust for Historic Preservation named another town, Littleton, as one of its five Great American Main Street communities in 2003. The schools are topnotch; Grafton County is home to the Ivy League's Dartmouth College. Skiing is quite the tourist draw for Northeastern metro areas. In spite of this, the largest city still has fewer than 15,000 residents. The Old Man of the Mountain, a facelike rock formation on Cannon Mountain, was featured on New Hampshire's state quarter in 2000. The famous stone face collapsed in 2003."
Cheryl C.
And, we've got cows and cheese! For you California residents; our cows are more contented than yours and produce more milk in the cool of Wisconsin. No cow in it's right mind would want to move to California.
Gene
Having lived here for only seven years I am not quite sure how this county was ranked #4 in the nation.