SMYRNA, GA -- The Jonquil City has made Money's Best Places to Live 2018 list, coming in at No. 44 , thanks in part to its community-focused downtown area, its plethora of parks and historic sites, modest home prices and part of a school system with a high graduation rate.

To come up with its list, the folks at Money only considered cities that have 50,000 or more residents. It also did not review places that had double the national crime risk, less than 85 percent of its state's median household income or a "lack of ethnic diversity." This narrowed the list down to 583 cities.



They also considered data such as cost of living, economic vitality, public education, housing, crime, amenities, income and diversity, and tasked reporters with researching each location and interviewing residents. The list also limited the entries to two per state and one per county.