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Appleton Ranked
#6 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#14 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#77 Best Green Cities
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#117 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Norman

Norman Ranked
#1 Most Congested Cities
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#1 Best Cities After Military Service
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#1 Best Places for Military Retirees
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#3 Americas Manliest Cites 2011
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#3 America’s Manliest Cities
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#4 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections
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#8 America’s Manliest Sports Cities
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#9 Hypertension Hot Spots
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#10 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020
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#11 Best Baseball Cities
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#16 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011
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#16 Sleepless Cities 2011
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#18 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)
EIGHTH ANNUAL FARMERS INSURANCE STUDY RANKS THE MOST SECURE PLACES TO LIVE IN THE U.S. Pittsburgh rated country’s most secure lar... Read More

Norman Ranked
#21 Best Cities for Board Gamers
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#25 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings
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#26 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas
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#26 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers
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#30 Most Energetic Cities
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#30 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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#31 America's Top Hygge Cities
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#32 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement
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#33 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft
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#34 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#37 America's Riskiest Online Cities
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#38 Most Irritation Prone Cities
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#39 Cities on the Edge of Greatness
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#45 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#45 Gloomiest Places in America
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#48 2005 High Gas Prices
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#49 Best Block Party Places
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#50 America’s Least Manly Cities
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#50 Failure To Lunch
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#52 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
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#61 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#63 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
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#67 The Most Single Cities
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#74 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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#100 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#161 2005 Best Places to Live
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#232 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Appleton    23 Reviews

Just to clarify my earlier review, the people are generally unfriendly, except the overweight women( 90% of women here) are friendly. Tailgatings on 1-41 an 441 is very  More

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Over 6 years ago

Women here are very heavy. People are rude here, will cut you off in public and not say a word. People at the gym walk in and do not even look at you, even though you  More

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Over 7 years ago

Something is happening in Appleton. The place used to be called the shopping capital of Wisco. But, slowly this rather commercial-sounding moniker is being replaced by  More

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Reviews for Norman    10 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

I was born here, raised here, and spent most of my formative years here, but plan to leave soon. The schools are good, the healthcare is okay, and there is very little  More

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I originally came to live in Langston, OK because I had lost my job in Sanford, Florida. I had lived in Florida all of my life (45 years) until coming to Oklahoma. I was  More

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Over 11 years ago

When I came to college in Norman in 1967, after a childhood spent on miliary bases, I saw the leafy neighborhoods and the truly beautiful OU campus and I thought it was  More

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