Bert Sperling, coauthor of Cities Ranked & Rated (Wiley) and Best Places to Raise Your Family (Frommers). He is the designer of the city-analysis software program Places, USA and created Money magazine’s original “Best Places to Live” list in the 1980s. www.bestplaces.net.
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