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Woodstock Drops in Money Sense "Best City" Rankings

Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:17

Woodstock's Mayor isn't buying what Money Sense Magazine is selling. Woodstock has slipped when it comes to the Money Sense national rankings on the "Best Place" to live in Canada. Woodstock has dropped from 68th place last year to 128th this year. Pat Sobeski was aware of the rankings before contacted for comment by Heart FM. Known as one who likes to dive deep into numbers to find the meaning, Sobeski says he couldn't figure out how Woodstock fell so far. "I can't figure it out...you look at the metrics, I can't figure it out and I love doing analysis, but this one I find baffling." 200 cities in the country are ranked on a wide range of metrics from household income, to crime. Sobeski says some of the categories Money Sense is using don't make sense to him. "When they have things such as the percentage of new cars purchase, how many days have rain...those are interesting to rank cities on, but I don't know how you do a weighting...I think you have to take it with a grain of salt." Ingersoll also saw a drop in the rankings, going from 119th down to 130th. Tillsonburg climbed up the charts from 150th last year, to 113th. Stratford shot up the charts going from 70th to 14th. Calgary was ranked as the best place to live in Canada. Click here to view the full rankings.

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