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Independence, MO vs Santa Fe, NM

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

#8 America’s Manliest Cities

#9 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#10 Sleep in the City Study

#11 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#13 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#14 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#14 Best Block Party Places

#15 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#15 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#15 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#17 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#18 Best Baseball Cities

#19 America's Top Hygge Cities

#20 Most Energetic Cities

#23 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#23 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#24 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#26 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#27 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#27 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#27 America’s Least Manly Cities

#27 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#29 2005 High Gas Prices

#30 Hypertension Hot Spots

#30 Healthiest Cities

#33 Gloomiest Places in America

#34 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#36 Sleepless Cities 2011

#36 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#36 Stressful Cities 2012

#39 Failure To Lunch

#44 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#44 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#58 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#60 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#60 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#64 The Most Single Cities

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

#130 2005 Best Places to Live

#244 Best Green Cities

#2 2005 Best Places to Live

#9 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#30 Best Green Cities

#42 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#69 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

The ice age sent glaciers sweeping south, ending at what is the edge of the Missouri River. Independence, Missouri, has artesian water straight from this glacial melt  More

I've lived here pretty much all my life, and I have to say, I'm ready to get out. I'm not sure if the crime here has just skyrocketed over recent years, or if I was just  More

Independence, Missouri is just like any other fairly large, fairly old town. A city approaching 200 years old and having nearly 120,000 residents is going to have both  More

I’ve recently moved to Santa Fe from Colorado. I love Santa Fe for various reasons… mostly because of the tricultural aspects of it. We have amazing Native American,  More

Bought a house here in 2013 and split my time here with other house in Adirondack Mountains of NYS. Santa Fe is great, but not perfect. Love the climate. 306 days of  More

The only 2 things about Santa Fe that are nice is the scenery and the weather. But, those two things cannot bring about the total comfort and homeyness that makes a city  More