Blacksburg, VA Named Best Place in the U.S. to Raise Kids by Business Week

More than half the population of Blacksburg, Va., is Virginia Tech students, so it may be easy to mistake this town of 41,383 as just another college town. Yet this small community, between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains, also...

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