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There is certainly a small town atmosphere here. It seems as if there is a high percentage of the population that wants to get Somerset "on the map", but they want to do  More

I have lived here since 1989. My family moved me here from Chicago Ill when I was 5 years old. Growing up in this place, I can tell you first hand what you children will  More

I wanted to post facts on somerset on my previous post because sometimes on bestplaces.net it is just opinions and those can be misleading or one-sided. So I posted  More