REWARDS FOR BEING BEST
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(MONEY Magazine) – Partly because of top educational facilities like Duke University (pictured above), North Carolina's Raleigh/ Durham/Chapel Hill area was No. 1 in MONEY's eighth annual ranking of "The Best Places to Live in America" in September. What can the area expect? A deluge of calls to the chamber of commerce from people who want to move there, says Chuck Hazama, mayor of 1993's best place, Rochester, Minn., and the author of a letter we are publishing here. How many actually move? According to Mayor George O. Stewart, Provo, Utah's population rose from 86,335 in 1990 to more than 93,000 in 1993 largely because MONEY ranked it No. 1 in 1991. "A $4 billion printing company relocated here as a direct result of the rankings," he adds, "and is now one of the 10 largest employers in town."