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#1 Best Big City Places to Live - MSN House & Home

#1 Top 50 Entrepreneurial Cities - Entrepreneur

#1 Most Entrepreneurial City Visa - USA

#2 Top 10 Cities For Moviemakers - MovieMaker

#2 Top 10 Places Where Ideas Happen (2004) - Visa USA

#2 Best Large City for Relocating Families - Worldwide ERC & Primacy Relocation

#3 Best Places For Business / Careers - Forbes

#3 Best Places for Singles (2004) - Forbes

#3 Cool Cities - Kiplinger

#3 Top Growth Cities - U-Haul

#3 Great Places to Live Life - 2.0

#4 Fastest Growing Cities - Men's Journal

#4 Smartest Cities - Men's Journal

#5 (2006) Most Educated Cities - MSN Encarta

#6 Best Standard of Living - Expansion Management

#8 Austin rated #8 Cleanest City in USA - Reader's Digest June 2005

#10 Interesting Neighborhoods - Travel-Leisure, America's Favorite Cities

#30 University of Texas ranked in "Great Schools, Great Prices" - 2005 - US News and World Report

Austin is 5% UNDER-VALUED!! Check out the report from CNN's Money Online

“Standard & Poor’s has developed a housing volatility index (HVI) that attempts to identify which of the 331 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) are most vulnerable to housing price losses during an economic downturn. Locales that could expect to suffer the least during an economic downturn include Austin, Texas, which the HVI judged as the market with the lowest probability of market value decline”. CNN Money, March 11, 2005

“Worldwide ERC (Employee Relocation Council), D.C., and Primacy Relocation LLC, named the Austin area as the No. 1 U.S. metropolitan area for relocating singles…Austin retained its top spot from the 2004 study…The study features the 100 largest U.S. metro areas.” Austin Business Journal, October 3, 2005.