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Fairfield, CT vs Birmingham, AL

#1 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#1 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#2 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

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

#15 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#21 2005 High Gas Prices

#27 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#29 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#30 2005 Best Places to Live

#35 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#63 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#77 The Most Single Cities

#145 2005 Best Places to Live

#176 Best Green Cities

#181 2005 Best Places to Live

#1 2005 High Gas Prices

#2 Most Congested Cities

#3 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#3 Best Block Party Places

#4 Most Energetic Cities

#4 Hypertension Hot Spots

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

#6 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#6 Best Baseball Cities

#7 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#8 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

#8 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#8 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#8 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)

#9 Sleepless Cities 2011

#11 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#13 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

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

#23 America’s Manliest Cities

#26 Failure To Lunch

#30 Gloomiest Places in America

#33 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#36 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#38 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#43 America’s Least Manly Cities

#47 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#48 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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

#63 The Most Single Cities

#83 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#218 2005 Best Places to Live

#345 Best Green Cities

I have lived in CT my whole life and I can't wait to get out of here. If you have yourself established, then this is great place to live. If you're a young person  More

I have lived in CT my whole life and I can't wait to get out of here. If you have yourself established, then this is great place to live. If you're a young person  More

Very expensive town to live in but good restaurants, schools, beaches and access to  More

Birmingham is better than ever, meaning it is beginning to gain half of the stuff a normal city of its size has. The food scene is definitely an exception and is above  More

Lived in the Birmingham for years. The small city was divided by the historical train tracks into the north half and the south one. The north section was the  More

I moved to Birmingham 6.5 years ago for a new job. The city is very boring in my opinion, there isn't much to do over the weekend except shopping or eating out. Summer  More