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Gahanna, OH vs Blowing Rock, NC

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

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#3 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

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#6 Best Airports to Make a Connection

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#7 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

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#10 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#11 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#11 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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#13 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#13 America's Top Hygge Cities

#14 Sleepless Cities 2011

#14 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#16 Hypertension Hot Spots

#18 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#19 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#21 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#21 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#22 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#24 Best Block Party Places

#24 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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#27 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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#32 The Most Single Cities

#37 2005 High Gas Prices

#37 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 Best Baseball Cities

#39 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#42 America's Most Playful Cities

#43 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#45 Healthiest Cities

#56 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#57 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#75 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#94 2005 Best Places to Live

#147 Best Green Cities

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

#254 2005 Best Places to Live

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The theft in the city is getting bad, the city keeps it under the radar but it is out of control, you have kids sneaking into locker rooms of the opposite sex and  More

Wonderful school  More

I've been in Blowing Rock for about 8 years and can't wait to leave this gloomy place. It is grey and cloudy most of the time. The rating it has on this site of 199  More

great in the summer, but very cold in the  More