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Houston, TX vs West Bend, WI

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#99 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#105 2005 Best Places to Live

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#248 Best Green Cities

#4 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#6 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#7 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#8 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#8 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#8 Gloomiest Places in America

#11 America's Top Hygge Cities

#13 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#14 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#15 Hypertension Hot Spots

#16 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#17 America’s Manliest Cities

#17 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#18 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#20 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#20 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#23 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#24 The Most Single Cities

#25 Failure To Lunch

#26 Most Energetic Cities

#27 Healthiest Cities

#27 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#28 America’s Least Manly Cities

#31 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#34 Sleepless Cities 2011

#36 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#38 Best Block Party Places

#39 Stressful Cities 2012

#40 Best Baseball Cities

#42 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#43 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

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

#46 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

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

#49 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#62 2005 High Gas Prices

#82 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#136 Best Green Cities

#198 2005 Best Places to Live

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

terrible place, so inconvenient, terrible two taxi services. West bend just caters to the rich. If you don't have a car,you won't be able to survive there. City workers  More

West Bend is a great small town that is growing fairly rapidly. If you are looking for a wonderful place to raise a family this is it! West Bend is pretty, has nice  More

I've lived in west bend for the past 8 years and i must say, it's a joke. It's nice if your retired and looking for cheap living, other then that i would not raise a  More