On the list: St. Louis is a great place to buy a house
Forbes magazine looked at cities all over the country to find the best places to buy a home. Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta and St. Louis all made the top 10.
Yes. St. Louis.
I love St. Louis. I don’t mind the summers, it doesn’t take long to get anywhere and it has a great newspaper. I have a friend who frequently puts down St. Louis, and when he does, I remind him of the airport with its departing planes and the highways that lead out of town. Now, I’ll also remind him that Forbes loves St. Louis. And not just for the pizza. (Or despite the pizza; whatever.)
Last week, Family Circle magazine named Webster Groves one of the best places to raise a family. Now Forbes recognizes the glory of St. Louis.
This is what Forbes said about St. Louis:”St. Louis is a great place to settle because it’s not overbuilt and is reasonably priced relative to income. Thanks to the attractive cost of living, many large corporations–including brewing behemoth Anheuser-Busch and financial heavies Stifel Nicolaus and Edward Jones–call St. Louis home. With a family friendly culture, and a steadily appreciating median home price of $145,400, the “Gateway to the West” is a great place to buy a home.”
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Jamie Riley is the P-D letters editor and gatekeeper of the letters blog. Before joining the editorial page in May 2005, she was a reporter and page designer. Jamie lives in University City with her husband, Charles, daughter, Elise, and the world's best Jack Russell terrier, Logan, better known as Stinky. 
Friends who moved here from Minnesota were amazed at how “freewheeling and bohemian” St. Louis people were compared to the more uptight, restrictive and rule-oriented Minnesotans. Both sides of my family have lived here since the 1840’s and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. The only place I have like as well was New Orleans.