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#10 Sleep in the City Study

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#11 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#13 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#14 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#14 Best Block Party Places

#15 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#15 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#15 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#17 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#18 Best Baseball Cities

#19 America's Top Hygge Cities

#20 Most Energetic Cities

#23 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#23 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#24 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#26 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#27 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#27 America’s Least Manly Cities

#27 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#27 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#29 2005 High Gas Prices

#30 Healthiest Cities

#30 Hypertension Hot Spots

#33 Gloomiest Places in America

#34 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#36 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#36 Stressful Cities 2012

#36 Sleepless Cities 2011

#39 Failure To Lunch

#44 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#44 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#58 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#60 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#60 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#64 The Most Single Cities

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#130 2005 Best Places to Live

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My favorite city to live year round with 4 seasons. We love Charlotte  More

This city has a lot of potential, but it could use some work. For example, it seems to lack things that other cities have. And there is a lack of atmosphere and charm.  More

Very new transplant (~6 weeks) so first impressions and reasons why I moved here: -great year-round weather, if you don't mind humidity-- less hot in summer than TX/AZ  More

The ice age sent glaciers sweeping south, ending at what is the edge of the Missouri River. Independence, Missouri, has artesian water straight from this glacial melt  More

I've lived here pretty much all my life, and I have to say, I'm ready to get out. I'm not sure if the crime here has just skyrocketed over recent years, or if I was just  More

Independence, Missouri is just like any other fairly large, fairly old town. A city approaching 200 years old and having nearly 120,000 residents is going to have both  More