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#36 Most Competitive Public Colleges
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#36 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#52 2005 High Gas Prices
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#56 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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#63 2005 Best Places to Live
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#71 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#74 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
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#75 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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#159 Best Green Cities
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#233 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Mount Airy


Mount Airy, NC has never been in one of our rankings. Do you think this is a mistake? Tell us what you think is great or not so great about his place.
Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 5 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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Reviews for Mount Airy    5 Reviews

I have lived in Mount Airy much of my adult life. I have never liked Mount Airy. Mount Airy is very family-oriented and therefore very cliquish. It is very difficult for  More

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Although the previous comment is almost 5 years old, what was mentioned is pretty true. Crime has worsened, in particular drug activity, with a very active market in  More

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I have been considering moving to Mount Airy. The thing is, when I tried to contact the newspaper classifieds about placing an ad no one replied. Ad when inquired about  More

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