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Posted on 7/15/2009 10:48 EST

If the cost of living in your town is getting you down, vote with your feet! Forbes pulled together a list of the 100 cheapest cities in America. Better get going while the price is still right.

"Centuries ago, Native Americans discovered a pleasant spot on the banks of the Merrimack River. They called it "Namoskeag," which translates loosely to "the good fishing place." The anglers have long since passed on, and the locality is now better known as Manchester, N.H. Time to add another title: best cheap city in the U.S.

The Manchester-Nashua metro area ranks first on our list of America's 100 Cheapest Places To Live. Among the U.S. cities with the most affordable housing and lowest cost of living, the Queen City offers the best combination of safety, employment opportunity and general quality of life. Once an industrial mill town, Manchester (pop. 402,000) has reinvented itself as a haven for those repelled by the high price of living and doing business in other New England states..."

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