Naming the best places to live seems like a popular thing to do by a few different magazines. Money Magazine has listed Ellicott City in the latest issue as the 10th best place to live. Columbia has been listed in past years. I tend to see our County as a whole as one of the best places to live so I am not sure how we can be broken up into individual towns. I know I am biased as a Columbia resident for almost 45 years but I feel that the quality of life we have in Howard County is because of the impact of the Jim Rouse vision for Columbia. Without that vision, we would simply be an overgrown suburban community of tract homes between DC and Baltimore. You only have to look at Rockville or Towson to see the sprawl that unplanned growth around a city looks like. Neither of those towns will ever be on a "best place to live" list.
My intent is not to be dismissive of Ellicott City but exactly what defines Ellicott City? Main Street? Route 40? Tracts of expensive new homes? The seat of Howard County Government? Doesn't Columbia and Ellicott kinda blur together? Doesn't the Columbia Village of Dorsey Search have an Ellicott City address? Doesn't Centennial Lake seem to be one of Columbia's lakes even though it is technically in Ellicott City? Maybe our area should only be labeled a "best place to live" when it comes to counties and not just towns. By that criteria, we would be number one.
P.S.
I will give Ellicott City credit for the development of Korean businesses along Route 40? Thank the high schools of Ellicott City for that.
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