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Houston, TX vs Parkland, FL

#2 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#4 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

#6 Hurricane Hotspots

#9 Most Congested Cities

#9 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#10 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#11 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

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

#15 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#16 Best Baseball Cities

#16 2005 High Gas Prices

#17 Most Energetic Cities

#17 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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

#19 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#20 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

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

#21 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#22 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#24 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#25 Sleepless Cities 2011

#26 Stressful Cities 2012

#29 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#30 Failure To Lunch

#32 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#33 Best Block Party Places

#34 Hypertension Hot Spots

#35 Gloomiest Places in America

#35 America’s Least Manly Cities

#36 Healthiest Cities

#36 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#39 America’s Manliest Cities

#39 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#40 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#40 America's Top Hygge Cities

#41 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#43 America's Most Playful Cities

#44 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#48 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#74 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#82 The Most Single Cities

#95 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#96 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#99 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#105 2005 Best Places to Live

#158 2005 Best Places to Live

#248 Best Green Cities

#1 Hurricane Hotspots

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

#2 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

#3 Stressful Cities 2012

#3 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#6 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#7 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#7 The Most Single Cities

#8 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#13 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#14 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#14 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#14 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#15 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#20 America’s Least Manly Cities

#21 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#23 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#24 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#25 Most Energetic Cities

#27 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#28 Healthiest Cities

#29 Sleepless Cities 2011

#29 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#29 Best Baseball Cities

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

#32 Failure To Lunch

#33 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#35 Hypertension Hot Spots

#35 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#36 America's Most Playful Cities

#38 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#41 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#42 America’s Manliest Cities

#43 Sleep in the City Study

#43 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#44 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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

#47 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#47 Best Block Party Places

#48 America's Top Hygge Cities

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

#49 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#50 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#57 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#58 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#59 2005 High Gas Prices

#66 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#69 2005 Best Places to Live

#81 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#84 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#125 2005 Best Places to Live

#172 Best Green Cities

#241 Best Green Cities

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 am only 18 years old, but I have lived here for 10 years, more than half of my life. I attended Riverglades Elementary, Westglades middle, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas  More

Let's face it, South Florida has really gone downhill fast in the past 5-7 years. Maybe it was the economy crashing, maybe it was the influx of crazies and weirdos to  More

Our family is from Chicago and we have been living here a year now. Our family settled in NE Parkland, which is considered the "older" section of town. I like it here!   More