Blacksburg. Virginia

Blacksburg, VA has an estimated population of 160,000 and is one of the faster-growing metro areas in Virginia. Blacksburg is famous for Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), a Virginia land-grant university. The town and the VA Tech campus have a long history of safety and living satisfaction, despite the Virginia Tech shootings that happened on April 16, 2007- Businessweek named Blacksburg the "Best Place in the U.S. to Raise Kids" in 2011, the same year readers of Southern Living named Blacksburg the "Best College Town in the South".