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Columbus, OH vs Avon Lake, OH

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#4 Gloomiest Places in America

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#6 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#7 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#7 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#9 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#10 America's Top Hygge Cities

#10 Most Energetic Cities

#12 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#13 The Most Single Cities

#14 Hypertension Hot Spots

#15 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

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

#17 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#19 America’s Manliest Cities

#21 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#22 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#23 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#24 America's Most Playful Cities

#25 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#26 Best Baseball Cities

#30 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#31 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#34 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#35 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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

#39 Sleepless Cities 2011

#40 America’s Least Manly Cities

#40 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#41 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#43 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#43 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#44 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#44 Failure To Lunch

#47 Healthiest Cities

#48 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#49 Sleep in the City Study

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

#54 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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

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

#79 2005 High Gas Prices

#80 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#264 2005 Best Places to Live

#326 Best Green Cities

I've lived here for my whole life! Awesome place to  More

We lived in Columbus from 2014-2022, originally from Denver work has taken us to Charlotte, NC, Austin and Atlanta for perspective. One of our biggest reasons for  More

The city has nice areas and old/ugly areas that look like the remains of a civil war. The nice areas are pretty. Traffic isn't bad compared to Cali but the summer  More

The Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA)just eliminated their service into Avon Lake, Ohio. Many people used it to get from this suburb to the downtown Cleveland  More

Some of the best special education services in the  More

Moved here in 2005. Great town to live in. Not as busy as Westlake or other areas closer to  More