Money magazine ranks Fort Collins No. 1 'Best place to live'

By KEVIN DUGGAN
KevinDuggan@coloradoan.com

Fort Collins residents know they have a good thing going here, and the news will soon reach the rest of the country.

Money magazine today will announce Fort Collins as the "Best Place to Live" in America for 2006. The monthly magazine's August edition ranks Fort Collins No. 1 among 745 places with populations greater than 50,000.

Kari Olsen, who grew up in Fort Collins, is featured with her family on the magazine's cover, walking near Horsetooth Reservoir. Olsen, 38, said she and her husband, Dan, moved back to Fort Collins in 1994 from the Midwest.  (complete article)