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#1 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving
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#4 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas
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#12 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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#25 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#32 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
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#33 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)
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#47 The Most Single Cities
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#54 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
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#56 2005 High Gas Prices
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#64 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#73 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#79 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#140 2005 Best Places to Live
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#343 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Hood River


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Reviews for Akron    31 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

I grew up and lived in Akron, OH for a majority of my life, with the exception of living in Panama City, FL for 8 years. The town is pretty decent, affordable utilities,  More

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Over 4 years ago

This area is completely run down. Ghetto with a capital  More

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My goodness, I had to create an account to counterbalance all the negative people. I grew up in Ellet, went to an Akron Public School, graduated with a bachelor's from  More

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Reviews for Hood River    10 Reviews

I have lived here for 20 years coming from the NY east coast area. This is a lot better in Summer as reflected in the rents which are out of this world -- $200 per  More

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Over 10 years ago

Hood River Oregon is a amazing place to live the winters are awesome lots to do.The two things that i found that sucks about hood river is the cost of living and the  More

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Over 15 years ago

I would like to know how many Hispanics are register voters in the city of The Dalles OR. And how many Hispanics are there in the ciy of The Dalles  More

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