Best Places: FM is #5 in the country

From the e-mail box, this news release from the Town brings good news:

FLOWER MOUND – Flower Mound was recently recognized for what residents already know: the Town is one of the Top 10 communities in the country. Flower Mound ranked No. 5 among the best of the best in the new book “Best Places to Raise Your Family: The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S.” Written by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander and published by Frommer’s, the book grades communities based on demographics, standard of living, education, lifestyle, health, and safety.

Rankings like these come out every week, and some are junk. But Sperling's group and the website bestplaces.net is a long-standing effort to rank cities on different criteria. If they say Flower Mound's one of the best places to live, I believe it. Of course, I knew that anyway, and I'm sure you did too.