Houston, Texas

 The Woodlands is ranked No. 14 on Forbes’ America’s Top 25 Best Places to Move list.

Fifty-eight percent of residents in The Woodlands were born in a different state or abroad, according to the 2000 Census. Twenty-six percent of residents moved into the area within five years.

At No. 1 was Alpharetta, Ga., outside of Atlanta, where more than 70 percent of residents were born somewhere other than Georgia. More than a third of the residents in 2000 had come from another state or abroad since 1995, according to Forbes.

Sugar Land just missed making the list, coming in at No. 30.

The magazine ranked towns known as "Relovilles" — young, mid- and upscale suburbs near company plants and office parks outside major cities.

Forbes used Census data to locate the towns, which boast populations of more than 25,000. Factors included the number of people in each town who were born out of state or abroad, who had moved into town from a considerable distance, moved within one to five years and moved for a job.

 The Top 25 Relovilles have twice the incomes, twice the home values and home sizes, twice the college degrees, twice as many youth and half as many elderly, twice the divorce rates and twice the number of residents who vote Republican, according to the magazine’s research.

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