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- In 2000, Fargo-Moorhead was named an All-America City.
- Ladies Home Journal (2000) ranked Fargo eighth in the top ten listing of "The Best Cities for Women—2000." Rankings were based on five categories: crime, lifestyle, education, and jobs.
- Inc. Magazine (December 1999) gave the Fargo-Moorhead community a third-place ranking among the 50 best small metropolitan cities in America for starting and growing a business. In 2000, Fargo-Moorhead ranked second.
- Morgan Quitno Press consistently ranks North Dakota as one of the safest states nationally in its annual crime survey. According to the 1997 report, North Dakota has the second lowest overall crime rate and the lowest violent crime rate of anywhere in the nation.
- Money magazine has ranked Fargo-Moorhead in the top 20 percent nationally for the past six years in their annual "Best Places to Live" report. In 1996, Money also ranked Fargo fourth in two subcategories: "Best Small Places to Live" and "Best Places in the Midwest."
- The Wall Street Journal ranks Fargo-Moorhead as the seventh best small-market community nationally in which to start a career (Spring 1994).
- National organizations such as Zero Population Growth, The Children's Rights Council (1997) and the Ann E. Casey Foundation consistently rank Fargo-Moorhead and North Dakota as one of the best environments in the nation for children.
- Reader's Digest ranks Fargo-Moorhead 40th in their 1997 "Best Places to Raise a Family" report, which polled parents across the country.
- Redbook magazine ranks Fargo-Moorhead as one of the best communities in the nation for working mothers (May 1996).
- The ACCRA (American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association) Cost of Living Index (first quarter, 1998) rates housing in the Fargo-Moorhead area as lower than average by approximately 6 percent.
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