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#3 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#3 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#3 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#3 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#3 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#3 America's Most Playful Cities

#5 America's Top Hygge Cities

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#5 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#6 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#6 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#7 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#8 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#9 Healthiest Cities

#9 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#9 The Best Cities to Relocate to in America

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

#13 Most Energetic Cities

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

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#18 Failure To Lunch

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#20 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#21 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#23 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#23 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#29 The Most Single Cities

#31 Sleepless Cities 2011

#31 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#33 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#36 Gloomiest Places in America

#38 2005 High Gas Prices

#39 Best Block Party Places

#41 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#42 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#43 Best Baseball Cities

#48 Hypertension Hot Spots

#56 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#57 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#60 2005 Best Places to Live

#63 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#79 Best Green Cities

#83 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#85 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#2 The Most Single Cities

#2 Hypertension Hot Spots

#5 Stressful Cities 2012

#5 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#6 Gloomiest Places in America

#7 Best Airports to Make a Connection

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

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

#10 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

#11 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#11 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#11 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#11 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#12 Sleepless Cities 2011

#13 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#14 Most Energetic Cities

#14 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#15 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#16 Most Congested Cities

#16 America's Top Hygge Cities

#18 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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

#20 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#20 America’s Manliest Cities

#22 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#24 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#25 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#30 Best Baseball Cities

#32 Best Block Party Places

#33 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#33 Failure To Lunch

#34 2005 High Gas Prices

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

#38 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#40 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#41 America's Most Playful Cities

#41 America’s Least Manly Cities

#43 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#44 Healthiest Cities

#45 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#45 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#45 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#50 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#50 Sleep in the City Study

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

#78 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#79 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#263 2005 Best Places to Live

#285 Best Green Cities

#344 Best Green Cities

During my 25 years in Denver, I’ve witnessed trends found in other metro areas: homeless camps, panhandlers, worsening traffic, increased crime and rapidly appreciating  More

I've lived in the Denver area for about eight years now. Moved here for college planning to get out as soon as I was done with college, and predictably got stuck  More

I've lived in the city since I was born (1998) and I just was ready to get out. I'm a Denver native and I am ashamed of my city. I moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  More

As soon as they started busing in the early 70’s, this place went to hell in a hand basket! My family moved here in the late 50’s and was once the premiere city in  More

Like any big city, there are pockets of bad areas in the City. But in general, the Northeast corner is the best with GM powertrain, Piston Palace, Great Lake Crossing,  More

Lived here from 1979-1998 and the schools are terrible, the future is dim and the crime, poverty and attitude is all so bad that I would not move back here to raise my  More