Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns: How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base
This is a pleasant little book to help you find a pleasant  little place to live. Crampton (From the Airport to the City),  who defines the essential institutions of a small town as a high  school and a hospital, warns against living in towns that have  allowed big-box stores to suck the vital juices out of the  downtown area and instead advises choosing places that have  figured out how to renew resources and provide a sense of  community. He offers one page of information for each of the 120  towns listed, including geography, climate, schools, recreation  facilities, sales tax rates, per capita income, the cost of  electricity, and the average cost of a home. Sections such as  "Finding a Job" and "Paying Your Dues" are interesting from a  sociological standpoint and will prove helpful to a reader  weighing the benefits of small-town living. Though not as  data-intensive as comparable books, including Places Rated and  America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities, this work is adequate  considering the affordable price. Recommended for libraries in  towns listed in the book as well as some public  libraries.Sylvia Andrews, Indiana State Lib., IndianapolisCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.