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Charlotte, NC vs Waterville, ME

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

#1 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#2 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#2 America’s Manliest Cities

#5 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#7 2005 High Gas Prices

#7 Most Energetic Cities

#8 Most Congested Cities

#9 Best Baseball Cities

#10 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#12 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#13 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#13 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#16 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#16 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#17 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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

#19 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#21 Failure To Lunch

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

#23 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#23 Hypertension Hot Spots

#23 America’s Least Manly Cities

#24 Stressful Cities 2012

#24 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#26 America's Top Hygge Cities

#26 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#27 Sleepless Cities 2011

#30 Best Block Party Places

#30 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

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

#32 Healthiest Cities

#34 Gloomiest Places in America

#35 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#38 America's Most Playful Cities

#40 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#43 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#46 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#65 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#71 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#74 The Most Single Cities

#272 Best Green Cities

#49 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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

just spend 15 years living in LA and loving it, but now I'm retired and I am priced out. staying in Maine with family. do I move to Central Maine with its myriad  More

I have lived here for a decade but only started looking for office space in the last few months. There are lots of affordable places  More

Maine in general, and Waterville in particular, have been a wonderful place to homeschool our three children. We are able to work with as much or as little interaction  More