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Daily Real Estate News  |  October 27, 2009  |   10 Safest Places to Live in the U.S.
A sense of security is one of the big reasons why people choose a home. Forbes magazine has created a list of the nation’s safest places to live by examining four factors: workplace accidents, weather catastrophes, crime rates, and traffic accidents.

The result is this list of top 10 safest metropolitan areas:
  1. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.-Wisc.
  2. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisc.
  3. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash.
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.
  5. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.
  6. Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, R.I.
  7. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.
  8. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.
  9. Cincinnati-Middletown, Ohio (tie)
  10. Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio/Denver-Aurora, Colo. (tie)

Source: Forbes.com, Zack O'Malley Greenburg (10/26/2009)

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