Less than half an hour from Orlando, this town offers a quirky but comfortable vibe. One popular restaurant here, Townhouse, is as famed for the chickens that stroll around as its all-American food.
Oviedo is serious about development; it's adding 50 acres of residential and commercial property, a project that will be completed by 2015. Big-name employers such as Lockheed Martin and Sieman Westinghouse have cushioned the local economy. --R.G.
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Using statistics from data provider Onboard Informatics, we crunched the numbers in order to zero in on America's best small towns for families. (Last year, we looked at small cities, with populations between 50,000 and 300,000.)
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