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WOODLAND (CBS13) — A small town with immoderate large accolades. The metropolis of Woodland has present earned a spot arsenic 1 of the champion places to unrecorded successful the country.
Liz Snyder proudly shows disconnected her wares at Vintage House by J, her caller store on Main Street.
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“We were truly looking to dilatory down,” she said.
She and her hubby wanted to extremity their two-hour commute from Roseville. So they moved person to his occupation in Woodland.
“Everybody knows everybody – and that tin beryllium bully and bad, but everybody is ace supportive,” Snyder said.
Having grown up successful a tiny municipality successful the Bay, Snyder loved buying a century-old location and having a two-block locomotion to work. She besides loved the assemblage vibe.
“I knew about Visit Woodland. They were a large promoter of the Honey Festival,” Snyder said. “They conscionable had the C-10 car amusement implicit the weekend. It was fabulous; it astir apt brought 10,000 people to town, which is immense for concern owners.”
That buzz is what’s bringing much radical to Woodland. In fact, Livability.com conscionable named the metropolis #55 successful its apical 100 Best Places to Live in America database – the second-best successful the state.
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“We are pleasantly surprised,” said Marcus Ullrich, who works with the Chamber of Commerce.
The ranking is based connected things similar lodging healthcare, education, infrastructure and the economy.
“We’re being recovered retired – and of people we are close adjacent to UC Davis, which is simply a person successful exertion and probe areas,” Ullrich said.
But Woodland is simply a batch much affordable than Davis, and that’s drafting successful homebuyers.
“As a chamber, we are highly arrogant of it and we privation much businesses to cognize we are a definite destination to look astatine erstwhile they are relocating,” Ullrich said.
Woodland officials volition usage the ranking to triumph much radical over to a small-town gait of life that Snyder says volition pb to large possibilities.
“It’s inactive [a] precise homey tiny town, and I think it volition enactment that way,” she said.
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The tract ranked much than 2,300 cities with populations betwixt 20,000 and 1,000,000. Roseville took the 8th spot successful the list.
Rachel Wulff
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