Last weekend I visited the No. 1 city in America, Charlottesville, Virginia.
The week before, Frommers Cities Ranked and Rated (by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander, published by Wiley) came out and said that Charlottesville was the best place to live in the United States.
I'm not sure where Baltimore ranks... or for that matter, the communities outside of Baltimore.
Anyhow, I didn't decide to visit Charlottesville because it had been rated No. 1. Rather, I went to attend a cousin's wedding.
(In a future posting, I should try to give my impressions of the place, as well as a summary of the wedding and describe some of the people I met, there.)