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# Why We Live Here: Columbia, Maryland

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## Video: Why We Live Here: Columbia, Maryland

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_Published 2016-09-15. Residents of Columbia, Maryland explain why they chose to live and raise their kids in this planned community._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] We love Colombia merely there's a lot of things that brought us here. My wife in 2000 and I founded that From Money magazines that was one of the best places to live and we loved it. It's a great place to raise your family. I grew up here and moved away for graduate school knowing that I wanted to live in this area. It's a multicultural area. I raised my kids here and... Just everybody got along. We love our community, our neighbors. All the kids come out and play together, have a good time. We're all here, and we're all in a community together. My girls, I want them to grow up around this type of community, Columbia, Maryland.

Being open and having that insight on everything of what the world has to offer, and I think that's what Columbia has to offer. What did you want in your sushi? Kick it out! [ INAUDIBLE ] Get it! You know everybody. And you come here, you know the people. Just a great place. [ MUSIC ] It is so diverse, and it has all the amenities that you could want in a place to live. And it's a full sense of Community. I feel like it's a real community. So I like that. [ MUSIC ] Columbia is a choice. Like the people who are here are choosing to be here. And choosing to make this place what it is .

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>> [ NOISE ] All right .

>> [ NOISE ] My wish came true. [ MUSIC ]

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