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Houston, TX vs Waxhaw, NC

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

#2 America’s Manliest Cities

#2 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#5 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#7 Most Energetic Cities

#7 2005 High Gas Prices

#8 Most Congested Cities

#9 Best Baseball Cities

#10 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#12 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#13 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#13 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#16 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#16 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#17 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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

#19 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#21 Failure To Lunch

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

#23 Hypertension Hot Spots

#23 America’s Least Manly Cities

#23 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#24 Stressful Cities 2012

#24 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#26 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#26 America's Top Hygge Cities

#27 Sleepless Cities 2011

#30 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#30 Best Block Party Places

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

#32 Healthiest Cities

#34 Gloomiest Places in America

#35 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#38 America's Most Playful Cities

#40 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#43 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#46 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#65 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#71 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#74 The Most Single Cities

#272 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

Waxhaw used to be a good place, I was born and raised here loving the small friendly town and enviorment. The summer parades were amazing as this was an ideal place to  More

The schools claim to be good but in reality they are just overrated and kind of bad plus the schools are all overcrowded from everyone moving here. No sidewalks anywhere  More

It is dangerous and arrogant to jump to conclusions. It is not prejudice towards single women, or any women for that matter. It is a growing saddness that natives feel  More