America's Most Livable Cities 2010
Francesca Levy, Forbes.com
Apr 30th, 2010


In these affordable metros, jobs are plentiful, crime is low and there are myriad entertainment options.

Each year Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business attracts some of the brightest master's degree candidates in the country. But the admissions staff occasionally has to sway prospective students with their choice of top schools who wonder why they should relocate to Pittsburgh, Pa.

"Pittsburgh has a really great cultural scene. We have a great ballet and a great symphony that travels the world and performs to packed houses, and there's a restaurant scene that's much more diverse than it ever was when I was growing up," says Wendy Hermann, director of student services for master's programs and a Pittsburgh native. "And it's an easier sell, now that the Steelers and Penguins won their respective titles."

The residents of “The Greatest Snow on Earth” came out in force to see Snowboarders put on “The Greatest Show on Earth”. More than 14,000 people jammed the bottom and the sides of the Superpipe to see, cheer and scream as the top snowboarding athletes of the Winter Dew Tour put on a amazing spectacle under the lights. To say it was standing room only would have been an understatement. The massive swarm of spectators had Dew Tour staff, riders and the Snowbasin team grinning from ear to ear. The Dew Tour has found a new home for sure. The people of Utah, especially Ogden, and the entire Snowbasin organization have made this stop on the Dew Tour arguably the best ever.