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Smack dab in the heartland of country music, stars from Taylor Swift to Conway Twitty to Johnny Cash have called this Nashville suburb home. The city has experienced rapid growth in recent years, adding shopping, restaurants, and white-collar jobs, even though a lot of residents commute into Nashville, just over 20 minutes away. Schools are top-notch, but residents here struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle, with obesity and diabetes rates noticeably high. --L.G.
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Due to erroneous job, cost-of-living, and test score stats for a small number of places, this city's rank changed slightly from an earlier version.
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Due to an error by our data provider, an earlier version listed incorrect stats for this city's number of colleges.
Using statistics from data services company Onboard Informatics, we crunched the numbers in order to zero in on America's best small cities for families. (Last year, we looked at small towns, with populations between 8,500 and 50,000.)
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