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#8 2005 Best Places to Live

#25 Best Green Cities

#32 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#2 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#2 Best-Rested Cities 2011

#2 America's Most Playful Cities

#3 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#3 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#3 Sleep in the City Study

#3 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#3 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#4 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#5 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#7 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#7 Best Baseball Cities

#9 America’s Least Manly Cities

#12 Healthiest Cities

#12 Best Green Cities

#12 Failure To Lunch

#13 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#14 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#16 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#18 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#21 Stressful Cities 2012

#22 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#23 The Most Single Cities

#25 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#27 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#28 Best Block Party Places

#28 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#36 America's Top Hygge Cities

#37 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#42 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#42 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#43 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#43 America’s Manliest Cities

#44 Most Energetic Cities

#44 Hypertension Hot Spots

#45 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#46 Gloomiest Places in America

#49 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#49 Sleepless Cities 2011

#61 2005 High Gas Prices

#66 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#70 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#74 2005 Best Places to Live

#75 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#99 America's Migraine Hot Spots

Lived around this city my entire life, and have spent countless hours in every part of it- at one point, Asheville was the place to be, it had a high standard of living,  More

Asheville has changed dramatically over the pass twenty years . At one time downtown and the charming family friendly neighborhoods within, reminded me of The Waltons  More

This city is very deceiving. Small but if you look close you see big liberal city problems in this town. Mainly because it is overwhelming liberal. Far left liberals.  More

I'm born, and raised in the Chicago area, and had most of my career while living in the Washington, DC area. San Diego does take some getting used to. Where you live  More

Greatest weather in the  More