Extra! Extra! Money magazine has come up with their 2012 list of Best Places to Live. This year, Money Magazine ranked Reston, VA # 7 in their Top 100 list of best small cities.
Best Places to Live
What made Money rank Reston so high up on their Top 100 list?
Like last year, I presume that a computer sifted through census designated places and figured out which of these places had highly desirable qualities. Last year, their computer algorithm ranked a community just next door to Reston, Oakton VA, in the #36 spot.
Fast forwarding to this year, Money’s 2012 #7 pick, Reston, is an award-winning planned community in the northern part of Fairfax County, VA.
Reston VA is in the northern part of Fairfax County
Money selected Reston based on its many amenities, diversity of housing choices, and its accessibility to major employment centers (Tysons Corner, Washington, DC, the Dulles Technology Hub, and Reston itself).
Perhaps Money read our blog post from a few months back, when we featured Reston in our article: “5 Reasons to Love Reston VA”. Well, maybe they didn’t read it, but it does feel good when our opinion from within the trenches gets validated by a sophisticated computer algorithm. 
Our 5 reasons for loving Reston are:
- Diverse housing options
- Extensive recreational opportunities: nature, parks, shopping
- Generous Job opportunities
- Strong Transportation infrastructure
- Good Public Schools
We wrote all about these 5 reasons on our previous article: 5 Reasons to Love Reston VA. Click through to find out more.
Everybody is welcome to find a home by school boundary. A school boundary
is simply a geographical area, just like a zip code or a postal city.
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