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Fayette | News

PTC #8 among U.S. 'small towns'

Mon, 07/13/2009 - 1:15pm

By: John Munford

Peachtree City has once again won national recognition for being one of America’s best “small towns” as ranked by Money Magazine.

The city was ranked eighth in the nation among the more than 1,800 U.S. cities with populations between 8,500 and 50,000 people. The criteria included “satisfactory education and crime scores” along with an income below 200 percent of the state median.

In its spotlight on Peachtree City, the magazine of course refers to the town’s extensive golf cart path system as well as its two lakes and three golf courses.

The magazine also highlights two opportunities for new jobs created by the expansion of NCR and the location of heavy equipment company Sany America.

PTC #8 Best Place to Live by Money Magazine

Submitted by Fred Brown on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 6:28am.

I'm surprised by Money Magazine placing Peachtree City number 8 on its annual ranking of the "Best Places to Live in the U.S." I would have thought it would have been number one. I've lived all over Atlanta, including Brookwood Hills, Ansley Park, and the great old Colonnade apartment building in Virginia Highland before it was converted into condominiums. And I have to say I numbered myself among those who regarded Peachtree City as the ultimate Atlanta suburb. But then I discovered that driving from Atlanta to Peachtree City, you run out of billboards about the time you get to Peachtree Parkway. I discovered golf cart paths. I enrolled my 6-year-old daughter in Crabapple Elementary School, a part of Fayette County's school system. I attended a city council meeting and got a sense of real citizen participation in local government. I read The Citizen newspaper with its through coverage of local issues, collection of colorful local columnists and amazing letters to the editor forum. Peachtree City has some answers to questions America's asking. It's NOT an Atlanta suburb. I was dead wrong about that. Peachtree City is a small town in the Georgia Piedmont that happens to be close to Atlanta. Number eight? No way! Enjoy it while you can Louisville, CO; Chanhassen, MN; Papillion, NE; Middletown, WI; Milton, MA; Warren NJ, and Keller, TX.

Isn't this a slight drop since the last time

Submitted by DarkMadam on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:34pm.

I was thinking that about 2-4 years ago money magazine put PTC at a higher number. They must not know about the city council's underhanded dealings and all the firings due to misspent money!

No Mama!

Submitted by snappynappy on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 9:59pm.

This town scored 8th out of the entire USA in 2005 and in 2009! Pretty remarkable I would say.

Another glass half empty citizen..

Submitted by Spyglass on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 8:59pm.

Good to know a few of you are still around to bitch and moan.

Dar: PTC rating

Submitted by Bonkers on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 6:50pm.

Is based upon a very good booklet sent by the PTC staff.

They brag about the Chinese cooming and NCR adding; and of course the dilapidated cart paths (leave out the dilapidated part and the bridge to nowhere); show pictures of the lakes that can't be used (don't say that), and nothing about Western PTC.

They don't check!

Leave dollar alone..

Submitted by Spyglass on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 8:55pm.

He's a doofus.

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