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Davidson, NC vs Alameda, CA

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#1 Best Baseball Cities

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#7 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#7 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#8 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

#8 Failure To Lunch

#10 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#13 Stressful Cities 2012

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

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

#19 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#19 Best Green Cities

#23 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#24 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#25 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#26 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#28 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#29 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#31 Best Block Party Places

#34 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#37 America's Top Hygge Cities

#37 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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

#40 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#42 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#42 Sleep in the City Study

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

#44 America’s Manliest Cities

#45 Most Energetic Cities

#46 Sleepless Cities 2011

#47 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#50 Hypertension Hot Spots

#57 2005 High Gas Prices

#96 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#107 2005 Best Places to Live

We just moved here from Chicago about six months ago after visiting Charlotte several time because our son attends UNCC. We happened to visit Davidson to find a new  More

Granted we just moved to Davidson just a few weeks ago but we find it to be one of the best all-around cities to live in. Close to Charlotte, you have the benefit of  More

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Having been born here & 70 now I have watched firsthand, a small, quiet town ruined by excessive building, overcrowding and far too many restaurants for a city this  More

Enjoy the immense benefit to having a close-knit community with main-street USA feel less than 10 miles from the resources of several urban and education  More

Alameda, CA is a unique town here in the Bay Area. Perhaps because it is an island, or perhaps because for many decades it was a U.S. Army base, the city has never  More