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Houston, TX vs Apple Valley, CA

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#1 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#4 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#7 Stressful Cities 2012

#10 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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

#14 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#16 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#19 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#19 Best Baseball Cities

#20 Healthiest Cities

#21 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#28 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#29 Failure To Lunch

#32 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#39 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#44 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#47 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#47 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#47 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#47 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#48 Gloomiest Places in America

#49 America's Top Hygge Cities

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

#66 2005 High Gas Prices

#84 The Most Single Cities

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#170 2005 Best Places to Live

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I moved to Houston from the San Francisco Bay area in 1991 after college but I have always had family here. Houston is not what you think of when you think of Texas  More

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

I've lived in Apple Valley for 11 years. The town is poorly managed, but still an okay place to live. In your climate rating you say average rainfall is 14 inches per  More

Overall, it's a nice place to call home. The affordability makes it a desirable place to live, especially with the amount you get for your money. For people who own farm  More

This is a beautiful place. Gorgeous sunsets and sunrises, many different kinds of birds including the Mockingbird and phoebes. When I first moved up here we had many  More