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#1 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking
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#4 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#7 Stressful Cities 2012
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#10 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#14 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
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#14 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft
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#15 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#16 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas
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#19 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep
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#19 Best Baseball Cities
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#20 Healthiest Cities
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#21 Sleepless Cities 2011
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#26 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040
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#28 Most Competitive Public Colleges
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#29 Failure To Lunch
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#32 America's Most Playful Cities
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#36 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)
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#39 Fiscally Fit Cities Report
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#44 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
When it comes to summer and its accompanying hot weather, there are so many beautiful things - beach days, barbecues, revea... Read More
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#47 Best Cities for Seniors 2005
A study from Sperlings BestPlaces identifies those places which do the best job of caring for its elderly population. The ""Bes... Read More
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#47 Best Cities for Board Gamers
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#47 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020
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#47 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement
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#48 Gloomiest Places in America
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#49 America's Top Hygge Cities
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#50 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#66 2005 High Gas Prices
Gas prices recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down. Today the average U.S. family with two drivers p... Read More
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#84 The Most Single Cities
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#89 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
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#170 2005 Best Places to Live
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#305 Best Green Cities
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Reviews
Reviews for Elko    4 Reviews
Josie · Elko, NV
Small town with big problems.
Over 5 years ago

Elko is like all small Nevada towns - limited in many things and the only change as far as the eye can see are over priced housing starts, drugs and crime. I really like  More

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NV Lady · San Jacinto, CA
elko life
Over 16 years ago

Spent my teen years in Elko & my parents still live there. It is extremely isolated. Life revolves around the mining industry. The old ranching families that live  More

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Brad · Elko, NV
Mining based economy
Over 17 years ago

Elko has an economy that is fairly typical of mining areas, that is, boom and bust. I've lived here for about 16 or so years. It's boomed tremendously twice and busted  More

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Reviews for Needles    2 Reviews
S · Needles, CA
The best kept secret in the US
Over 5 years ago

I own a home in full, with no mortgage and a spacious yard. I can walk to white, sandy beach riverfront in 10 minutes from my front door. In 20 minutes I can be at  More

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Dan · Needles, CA
City Of Needles
Over 15 years ago

Have lived in Needles for 7 years now. This town is being over run with trash. The town is broke due to Dirt bags people that live off of the system. They said  More

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