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Buffalo, NY vs Lake Orion, MI

#2 The Best Cities to Relocate to in America

#3 Gloomiest Places in America

#6 Most Energetic Cities

#6 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#7 Hypertension Hot Spots

#8 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#8 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#12 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#18 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#19 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

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

#23 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#23 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#28 The Most Single Cities

#28 2005 High Gas Prices

#31 America’s Least Manly Cities

#31 Best Baseball Cities

#32 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#32 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#34 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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#36 Best Block Party Places

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

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#47 Failure To Lunch

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#53 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

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

#86 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#181 Best Green Cities

#205 2005 Best Places to Live

#2 The Most Single Cities

#2 Hypertension Hot Spots

#5 Stressful Cities 2012

#5 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#6 Gloomiest Places in America

#7 Best Airports to Make a Connection

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

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

#10 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

#11 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#11 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#11 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#11 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#12 Sleepless Cities 2011

#13 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#14 Most Energetic Cities

#14 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#15 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#16 Most Congested Cities

#16 America's Top Hygge Cities

#18 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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

#20 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#20 America’s Manliest Cities

#22 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#24 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#25 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#30 Best Baseball Cities

#32 Best Block Party Places

#33 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#33 Failure To Lunch

#34 2005 High Gas Prices

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

#38 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#40 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#41 America's Most Playful Cities

#41 America’s Least Manly Cities

#43 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#44 Healthiest Cities

#45 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#45 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#45 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#50 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#50 Sleep in the City Study

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

#78 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#79 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#263 2005 Best Places to Live

#285 Best Green Cities

#344 Best Green Cities

Clean, fun, safe and unique. Great place to raise a family. Affordable housing, strong job market. Great schools and neighborhoods.  More

Buffalo was okay in 2016. Since then, crime is up, there are more methadone clinics than pediatricians, and so many of the small businesses that made this place charming  More

This city is just plain beautiful. Sure, it might not be New York or Albany. But it's Buffalo. Place is a God-send. You want to see the Falls and the Bills? Come here.  More

Lake Orion, like many Michigan cities has a lot of beauty to it, obviously including the lakes, which there are several big and many small. I grew up here and if I  More

We moved here from Ky 2 years ago. I absolutely love it, and outside of a job transfer, will never leave. The schools are exceptional, some of the highest test scores in  More

We moved to Lake Orion three years ago from California and have been really pleased with this area. The people are very friendly and have embraced us well. Lake Orion is  More