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#19 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#29 Best Green Cities

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

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

#191 2005 Best Places to Live

#1 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#1 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#1 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#2 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#2 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#2 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#2 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#3 America’s Least Manly Cities

#4 The Most Single Cities

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

#5 Most Energetic Cities

#5 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

#6 America's Most Playful Cities

#7 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#7 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#8 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#8 America's Top Hygge Cities

#8 Sleep in the City Study

#8 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#9 America's Top Hygge Cities

#9 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#10 Gloomiest Places in America

#11 Healthiest Cities

#11 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#12 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#13 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

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

#15 Best Baseball Cities

#19 2005 High Gas Prices

#19 Failure To Lunch

#20 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#20 Sleepless Cities 2011

#22 Best Block Party Places

#24 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#24 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#26 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#33 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#35 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 America’s Manliest Cities

#40 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#41 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#42 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#43 Hypertension Hot Spots

#45 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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

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

#64 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#67 Best Green Cities

#71 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#108 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#121 Best Green Cities

I was there 5 years. Nothing to do but we’ll go shopping... at Walmart. It lacks so many things. There is no experience here, it jumps on any political band wagon and  More

Entertainment lacks greatly - especially the Hancher shows. I was hoping after they rebuilt they would be getting better shows there, that didn't happen. One has to  More

Iowa City is great. It's diverse and never boring. There always a variety of new shops and restaurants to explore and try out. Also watching college kids do stupid  More

We just moved here last year because we could not afford Somerville. We wanted space (reluctantly moving from NYC we at least wanted space) and would have only been able  More

The cost of living is higher than the quality of housing and  More

One of teh big advantages to living in Everett is that you are absolutely close to everything. You can get to Logan airport driving or in a cab in about 15 minutes any  More