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Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns: How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base Paperback – November 4, 2002

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For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the answer.

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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., Indianapolis
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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392 pages
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English
Publisher

M. Evans & Company
Publication date

November 4, 2002
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7.1 x 0.66 x 8.94 inches
ISBN-10

0871319888
ISBN-13

978-0871319883
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ M. Evans & Company; First Edition, First Printing (November 4, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0871319888
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0871319883
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 0.66 x 8.94 inches

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Great things to think about prior to major decision

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2007

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This is not a very good book. 50% of the book is devoted to Mr. Crampton's less than interesting observations of life in a small town. His advice is mostly extremely basic common sense stuff that any normal person should already know. He offers very few interesting insights.

The other half of the book is his list of the 120 best small towns in America. This part of the book is even more weak. It's obvious Mr. Crampton did a lot of internet travel to gather his data as the descriptions are clearly culled from the towns' chamber of commerce websites. He offers zero insight or information gained from him (or someone else) actually visiting / living in the towns and conveying what the towns are actually like.

His ruse is painfully evident as the "more info" listing for each town is merely a link to their respective chamber of commerce website! What "more info" could there be given that the author merely copied the site? Even his internet research was exceptionally lazy.

The book should be titled "A Compilation of America's Best Small Towns' Chamber of Commerce Website Info plus Non-insightful Musings of the Armchair Travelling Author."

And how do the towns qualify as being best? By Mr. Crampton's estimation they must have a highschool, and a hospital, and at least a few other businesses that aren't Walmart. Could the bar be set any lower? With that criteria one could throw 120 darts blindfolded at a map and do just as well as this book.

The book could be fodder for a Garrison Keilor Ketchup skit, "you know June, why don't we retire to the country, find a town with a highschool and live out our days..... Dear, have you been getting enough Ketchup lately..."

A very weak text that I'll be returning to Amazon post haste!

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Redsilas

Sadly outdated

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2013

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I bought this book used. It had some interesting places for small town, but none I would ever consider. The few I've actually visited that are listed in this book are definitely not what I envision as 'small town' lifestyle. The tips that the author gives though - what to really consider when planning a move to a small town, is worth the read. Sadly, this book is outdated, but it was an interesting perspective on what another view of 'small town is'

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

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2009

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The book gives a lot of information about the process the author used and a verbal look at each town. No pictures in the book but there is plenty of info online and pictures when you go to real estate websites to check out the towns.

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J. C Dickey-Chasins

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Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2003

This book is a good place to start if you're thinking of moving to a town of 15,000 or less. It will point you to many interesting communities. However, having used his previous book to guide my last move, and as a resident of one of the towns highlighted in this book (Grinnell), I can honestly say that data only carries you so far. Crampton could provide readers with a great benefit by lengthening the amount of description and flavor for each town. In particular, one key element missing is the 'dynamic' of a town: is it progressive? conservative? excited about education? quick to vote down taxes and bonds? These elements form the 'culture' of a small town, and believe me, the culture of a small town will be *very* important to you!

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Neon Night

Make that 3 1/2 stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2005

Actually, I would have given "Making Your Move" 4 stars had I found the descriptions of the individual towns more interesting. But, what I did find was a witty style of writing, some laugh-out-loud moments, and some very down-to-earth advice on the pearls and perils of small-town life. One might apply Norm's smart and insightful guidelines to just about any sparsely populated area in the quest for new habitation. So even though his selections failed to fire me up, they did make me realize that I may not be cut out for small-town living after all. And that, in itself, is worth far more than the price of a book. Thanks, Norm, and make that four stars.

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