Edina Not Among Money's 100 Best Places to Live

Another year, another instance of being snubbed from Money Magazine's list of the 100 best places to live.

But fret not, Edinans, it wasn't because we don't measure up to Twin Cities peers like Eden Prairie, Woodbury, Lakeville, Eagan and Maple Grove. In fact, it was little more than a technicality.

In ranking America's best small cities, Money Magazine first started out with 744 towns across the country with populations between 50,000 and 300,000. Since Edina clocked in at 48,620 as of 2011, it was a mere 1,400 residents short of topping the list.

Money actually alternates between cataloguing the best small cities and best small towns—populations between 8,500 and 50,000—every other year.

In the years the magazine looked at small towns (2011, 2009, 2007), somehow Edina still didn't make the cut. While it's technically within the parameters for small towns, is Edina perhaps "too big" to earn a spot on the list?

Chanhassen—only 23,358 residents—was the top Minnesota community to make the list of small towns in both 2011 and 2009.

So tell us, what's with the lack of love for Edina?

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