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27 October 2009 @ 01:21 pm EDT

A sense of security is one of the big reasons why people choose a home. Forbes magazine has created a list of the nation's safest places to live by examining four factors: workplace accidents, weather catastrophes, crime rates, and traffic accidents.

The result is this list of top 10 safest metropolitan areas:

1. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.-Wisc.
2. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisc.
3. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash.
4. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.
5. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.
6. Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, R.I.
7. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.
8. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.
9. Cincinnati-Middletown, Ohio (tie)
10.Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio/Denver-Aurora, Colo. (tie)

Source: Forbes.com, Zack O'Malley Greenburg (10/26/2009)

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