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Book Review of Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns : How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base

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From the back cover:
How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base.
You've dreamed about trading the hassles of city life for the peace and quiet of a small country town--and now you're ready to live the dream But where do you begin? How do you find that storybook place and check it out?

This book is the answer. Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns shows you how to find wonderful small towns all across America--including a starter list of 120 super small towns an the author's person choices of the the Top Ten (see page 44).

Town details include essentials like the cost of a house, enrollment and test scores at the high school, geography, climate, recreation, churches, and other data to help you find the right place for your family. Step by step, this book shows you how to make your move, settle in, and establish your new home base.

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I found this book to be very helpful. It has tons of graphs and facts about small towns all throughout the US. The very first page in the book is a 10-Point Test of a Great Small Town. This book is packed with helpful tips on how to really evaluate a town on its potential to be your next home!