Los Alamos, New Mexico - Study says it's the best quality of life in U.S.

[ringmastery]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5023308/?GT1=3391

Don Taylor wasn't satisfied with life in Rhode Island. So he decided to search for something better beyond his state's borders — maybe way out West.

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His quest ended in Los Alamos, N.M.

"The pace in New England is kind of stressful. It's almost claustrophobic," says Taylor, a photographer who moved to Los Alamos 20 years ago. "But here, it's different. It's relaxed. We've got wide open spaces, and the people are laid back."

Taylor's praise is reinforced by a new American City Business Journals study, which says that Los Alamos offers the best quality of life anywhere in America.

ACBJ used 20 statistical indicators to rate living conditions in all 3,141 counties and independent cities across the nation.

Topping the list is Los Alamos County, located about 30 miles northwest of Santa Fe, N.M. Rounding out the top five are Olmsted County, Minn., which includes the city of Rochester; the Colorado counties of Pitkin and Douglas; and Loudoun County, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C.

[meatloaf]

1. Hokie Smokes Bullwinkle, I live in Loudoun county

and I wouldn't have rated it that great. It's not bad, but if it's near the top, It's sad to think it can't get much better than this.

[Spinzonner]

2. Anyone checked the background radiation levels ?

[comradebillyboy]

3. los alamos is plesant and scenic, but also

boring. unless you are a 100% outdoorsperson ya gotta go to santa fe or albuquerque for good resturants, good bookstores, plays, concerts, shopping or any other form of diversity. los alamos is an upscale company town with few attractions other than clean air and nice scenery. (the groundwater is pretty polluted from 60+ years of nuclear weapons research)

i used to go to los alamos national labs on buisness, and the town is one dull place, other than the lab, which is extremely intresting. we would usually get lunch in santa fe, which teems with good places to eat, and things to see and do.