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Buffalo, NY vs Santa Rosa, CA

#2 The Best Cities to Relocate to in America

#3 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#6 Most Energetic Cities

#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 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#32 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#34 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#35 America’s Manliest Cities

#36 Best Block Party Places

#39 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#46 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

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

#47 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#47 Failure To Lunch

#49 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#53 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#86 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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

#181 Best Green Cities

#205 2005 Best Places to Live

#1 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

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

#137 Best Green Cities

#166 2005 Best Places to Live

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

I was born and raised here. Santa Rosa used to be a great city great location great weather but now it is overcrowded and crime is off the charts and housing is crazy  More

I've lived her over 20 years and it's a pretty nice place. The main vibe is you feel safe doing this day or night. Most of the neighborhoods are well taken care of, they  More

Terrible city that's hurting for money. After going on a long hiatus from enforcing traffic laws, they've recently turned their highways into an ATM machine/cash cow by  More