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#5 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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#11 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#11 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#11 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#12 Sleepless Cities 2011

#13 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#14 Most Energetic Cities

#14 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

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#16 Most Congested Cities

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#18 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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

#20 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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#22 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#24 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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#30 Best Baseball Cities

#32 Best Block Party Places

#33 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#33 Failure To Lunch

#34 2005 High Gas Prices

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#38 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#40 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#41 America's Most Playful Cities

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#43 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#44 Healthiest Cities

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#45 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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#50 Sleep in the City Study

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#78 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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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 have lived here 20 years and have had enough! Too cold for me, other than that I have no  More

Birmingham has all the benefits of a big city, with none of the negatives. It has that urban feel with a small town charm. We walk to restaurants, library, movie  More

Very enjoyable, excellent walking community with charming downtown and path through woods by the river. Great selection of dining establishments, mutiple outdoor  More