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washingtonian best places to live::Where does your hometown fall?
Welcome, friends, to our list of the best places to live in 417land.
Population leaders springfield and joplin both scored high enough to make the list, as did highlandville, with just 918 souls.
Several of the suburban towns near springfield are there, too.
Are we supposed to be surprised?
Instead, the top 10 list of best places to live comes from crunching numbers for each of the 34 towns we included.
We did our best to level the playing field between big and small towns.
Of course, this is just one way of looking at things.
If you consider small population density or long commute times positive factors instead of negative ones, feel free to make your own top 5 list using our stepbystep instructions on p.