Centreville, Va., has been a big part of the Glover family life since 1997, when we started worshiping with the saints who meet at the church of Christ.

It’s where we see the people closest to us, our spiritual family, on a regular basis — twice on Sundays for Bible study and worship, again for Wednesday evening Bible study, and also at gospel meetings and other special services. We love Centreville.

But it is not, as CNN Money would have America believe, the best place to live in Virginia. The news outlet ranked the best 100 places to live in the country, and Centreville finished at No. 30. Three other Virginia cities — Alexandria (47), Chesapeake (85) and Suffolk (91) — made the cut.

This statement alone should have disqualified Centreville as a candidate: “Washington, D.C., is anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour and a half away, depending on traffic.” The best places to live don’t have commutes that double unpredictably.

Here, from the comments after the article, are a few other observations by people who know firsthand what’s wrong with Centreville:

• “Centreville? Now I know the entire report must be inaccurate. Centreville is a dump, full of small apartment complexes, spread-out shopping centers, lots of traffic. Ugh. There is nothing to recommend about Centreville! Half the people in the McMansions that are the other part of Centreville are in foreclosure because their houses are now worth 200K LESS THAN THEY PAID FOR [them] IN THE HOUSING FRENZY OF 4 YEARS AGO.”
• “When did Centreville become a ‘historic town?’ It is the epitome of suburban sprawl, with some historic Civil War sites. The town, if one can call it that, is anything but historic. C’ville is an indistinguishable suburban enclave with lots of strip malls and ubiquitous housing developments.”
• “Are they kidding? The traffic is a nightmare. There’s no town. It’s a sprawling burb.”

This is what happens when urban dwellers — CNN is based in Atlanta, one of the most sprawling metropolitan areas in the country — anoint themselves as the arbiters of good livability taste.

The survey ruled out the truly best cities, the smallest ones, when it set the population bar so high. No cities with fewer than 50,000 people were considered. That meant only a couple of cities in West Virginia, the better half of Virginia, had any hope of making the list.

And everyone reads this blog should know by now that the great Mountain State is the best place on the planet to live.