Why you'd want to live in Waco

Positioned in the Texas Triangle bounded by Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio, Waco is a quality-of-life destination, a place where tourism, industry, higher education, outdoor access and a moderate cost of living create a comfortable home. In Waco, the familiar rubs elbows with the unlikely; rocket engine testing can rattle windows near where mammoths once grazed, and young entrepreneurs imagine a future while respectful of history in a city founded early in Texas’ statehood. Home to the world’s largest Baptist university and tourist magnet Magnolia Market at the Silos, Waco is now a destination, not just a historic waypoint for cattle drives crossing the Brazos River and the Texas cotton industry. via realestate.usnews.com