By Bill Teeter Tribune-Herald staff writer

Lara Robertson gets a predictable response when she tells friends who live in bigger cities where she resides.

“Why would you want to live in Waco?” they ask the Midway Middle School seventh-grade teacher.

Her answer: She’s happy here.

Robertson, 30, is one of a growing number of workers between ages 25 and 34 in the Waco area.

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