By Adam Bluestein, Real Simple
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\nCategory 1: Getting around –Includes average commute, walkability, traffic congestion, airport on-time performance.<\/p>\n
Category 2: Health and safety –Includes average wait to get a doctor’s appointment, physicians per capita, response times of emergency medical services.<\/p>\n
Category 3: Information and technology — Includes broadband and wireless availability, bookstores and libraries per capita, helpful resources such as 311 hotlines.<\/p>\n
Category 4: Green time-savers — Includes recycling access and cost, number of farmers’ markets and community gardens, bike friendliness.<\/p>\n
Category 5: Lifestyle — Includes number of personal trainers and organizers, restaurants offering takeout per capita, miscellaneous time-saving services.
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\n11. Baltimore –Score: 16.5 — Population: 636,919<\/p>\n
In the top tier of wired cities, Baltimore also has stellar recycling and a popular public-transit system. Bonus: Book Thing, a local nonprofit, gives away thousands of donated books every weekend, offering visitors as many as they can take. Talk about a way to build a library.<\/p>\n
Getting around: 3.5 By Adam Bluestein, Real Simple … Category 1: Getting around –Includes average commute, walkability, traffic congestion, airport on-time performance. Category 2: Health and safety –Includes average wait to get a doctor’s appointment, physicians per capita, response times of emergency medical services. Category 3: Information and technology — Includes broadband and wireless availability, bookstores and libraries … <\/p>\n
\nHealth and safety: 3
\nInformation and technology: 4
\nGreen time-savers: 4
\nLifestyle: 2
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