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Columbia makes the “Most Well-Read City in U.S.” list

May 6, 2013 by  
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Apparently, Columbia likes a good page-turner.

Amazon.com said Wednesday that the capital city ranks ninth on their annual list of most well-read cities.

They get the ranking based on sales of books, magazines, newspapers and Kindle sales. They then rank cities with populations over 100,000 on a per capita basis.

Alexandria, Virginia topped the list, followed by Knoxville, Tennessee and Miami.

Here are the Top 20:

1. Alexandria, Va.
2. Knoxville, Tenn.
3. Miami, Fla.
4. Cambridge, Mass.
5. Orlando, Fla.
6. Ann Arbor, Mich.
7. Berkeley, Calif.
8. Cincinnati, Ohio
9. Columbia, S.C.
10. Pittsburgh, Penn.
11. St. Louis, Mo.
12. Salt Lake City, Utah
13. Seattle, Wash.
14. Vancouver, Wash.
15. Gainesville, Fla.
16. Atlanta, Ga.
17. Dayton, Ohio
18. Richmond, Va.
19. Clearwater, Fla.
20. Tallahassee, Fla.

To read the original aricle as reported by WLTX in Columbia, SC, please click here.

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Americans Less on the Move, Census Says

December 9, 2011 by  
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High unemployment and housing woes are forcing more Americans to stay put, new Census Bureau data shows. In fact, Americans are moving less than they ever have on record, since the Census Bureau started tracking such data in 1948.

In the last year, about 35.1 million of Americans — or 11.6 percent — moved to a new home, which is down from 12.5 percent in the previous year. The record for American mobility was 21.2 percent, reached in 1951. Read more

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