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Houston, TX vs Tavares, 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 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#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 America’s Least Manly Cities

#35 Gloomiest Places in America

#36 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#36 Healthiest Cities

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#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

#2 Failure To Lunch

#5 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

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

#6 2005 High Gas Prices

#6 Stressful Cities 2012

#7 Sleepless Cities 2011

#8 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#9 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#10 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#11 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#14 America’s Manliest Cities

#15 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#15 America’s Least Manly Cities

#15 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#15 Best Cities for Board Gamers

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

#18 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#19 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#20 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#22 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

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

#27 Best Block Party Places

#29 Hypertension Hot Spots

#30 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#30 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#31 Most Energetic Cities

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

#34 America's Most Playful Cities

#34 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#35 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#36 The Most Single Cities

#37 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#38 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#38 America's Top Hygge Cities

#40 Gloomiest Places in America

#44 Best Baseball Cities

#46 Healthiest Cities

#49 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#76 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#96 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#97 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#134 2005 Best Places to Live

#143 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

looking for the best reasonable area to live in close to Astatula, Fl. Low crime, cost of living and jobs. Husband lost job in Georgia and now has obtained a great  More

A great, great town..Wonderful city employees..A revitalized down town entertainment district..Seaplane port, new restaurants,water park for kids..A beautiful lighted  More

Been here 22 years. Leaving asap. Too many old people due to HUGE, well marketed retirement community taking over Lake/Sumter/Marion counties. High housing costs,  More