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Charleston Ranked
#6 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#10 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas
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#35 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#36 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#36 Most Competitive Public Colleges
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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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Charleston Ranked
#233 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Port St. Joe

Port St. Joe Ranked
#11 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Port St. Joe Ranked
#107 Best Green Cities
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Port St. Joe Ranked
#108 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Port St. Joe Ranked
#252 2005 Best Places to Live
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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 Port St. Joe    3 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

I lived here for seven years.  More

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We have owned here for 10 years and love it. The pace is slow but deliberate. The growth of the area stagnated when the economy stagnated but we have seen noticeable  More

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Housing in Port St. Joe is readily available, but not affordable. Ever since the paper mill closed several years ago the town has changed from a small close community  More

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