CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Livability.com just released its 2020 Top 100 Best Places to Live list and Charlotte beat more than 1,000 cities with populations between 20,000 and 1,000,000 to score the 13th spot.
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Popular attractions such as Lake Norman, the U.S. National Whitewater Center, and the city’s parks system helped secure one of the top spots, as well as business attributes such as the number of Fortune 500 companies that call Charlotte home and Charlotte Douglas International Airport, which is considered the sixth-busiest international airport in the world.
Fort Collins, Colorado, topped the list and two other North Carolina cities ranked ahead of the Queen City to land in the Top 10: Asheville at No. 6, and Durham at No. 9.
Other cities from the Tar Heel State that made the list were Wilmington at No. 43 and Winston-Salem at No. 92.
Three South Carolina cities made the list: Charleston at No. 48, Greenville at No. 54 and Columbia at No. 87.
To see the full list along with each city’s LivScore, click here.
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