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CARY AND MONEY MAGAZINE’S BEST PLACES TO LIVE

Officials from Money Magazine today confirmed that this month’s “Best Places to Live” ranking is different from its January 2004 “Hottest Town” ranking, and that Cary, NC, is “The 2004 Hottest Town in the East” as well as the 34^th Best Place to Live in America for 2005.

According to Money Magazine spokesperson Keith Carroll, “The way that we did the list this year is totally different than the way it’s been done in the past few years; it’s really like comparing apples and oranges to compare this year’s list to last year’s.  Cary in no way flipped on any types of lists.”

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