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Rankings for Dover

Dover Ranked
#25 2005 Best Places to Live
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Dover Ranked
#29 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Dover Ranked
#154 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Auburn

Auburn Ranked
#38 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Auburn Ranked
#43 Most Competitive Private Colleges
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Auburn Ranked
#52 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Auburn Ranked
#97 Best Green Cities
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Auburn Ranked
#313 2005 Best Places to Live
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Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 7 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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Reviews for Auburn    2 Reviews

I've lived in Maine 28 years. Maine is a beautiful state and Lewiston/Auburn (twin cites) are a nice area. Everything here. 4 seasons, clean air, best water in the  More

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Auburn is the residential-half of the twin cities of Lewiston-Auburn (L-A). Whereas Lewiston grew up around shoe, linen and other factories, Auburn claimed the suburbs  More

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