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New Rankings Show Pittsburgh Is America's Smartest City

A real estate blog calculated the nation's top 10.

By Becky Brindle

Add it to your résumé, Pittsburgh. You are now America's Smartest City.

But you already knew that, right? You're just that smart.

The Steel City beat out 99 others to earn the new title from the real estate website Movoto. The study based its criteria on education level, universities per person, libraries per person, museums per person, public school rankings and more.

The website's blog states that Pittsburgh won the title "mostly because of the large number of colleges and universities in the area."
 
Here are the top 10: 

1: Pittsburgh, PA 
2. Orlando, FL 
3. Washington, D.C. 
4. Atlanta, GA 
5. Honolulu, HI 
6. Tampa, FL 
7. Seattle, WA 
8. San Francisco, CA
9. Cincinnati, OH 
10. Miami, FL


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