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Kensington, MD vs Columbia, MD

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#75 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#87 Best Green Cities

#1 Failure To Lunch

#2 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#3 Most Energetic Cities

#4 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#4 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#5 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#7 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#8 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#12 Best Block Party Places

#12 America's Most Playful Cities

#12 2005 High Gas Prices

#15 Sleepless Cities 2011

#15 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

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

#17 America’s Least Manly Cities

#19 Gloomiest Places in America

#19 Healthiest Cities

#20 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#22 Hypertension Hot Spots

#22 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#25 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#25 Best Baseball Cities

#26 The Most Single Cities

#27 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#27 America's Top Hygge Cities

#28 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#29 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#30 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#32 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

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

#34 Stressful Cities 2012

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

#36 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#37 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#37 America’s Manliest Cities

#38 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#39 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#40 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#42 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#48 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#65 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#126 Best Green Cities

#179 2005 Best Places to Live

Not as expensive as Chevy Chase, Bethesda or upper NW, but very clean safe affordable and close in to  More

too expensive, but great  More

I have lived in Kensington for the last couple of years. This place is great-virtually no crime, close to DC, shops and parks, excellent schools, metro and commuter  More

Lived here for a while, beautiful opportunities, pays well, overall nice  More

Been here 30 years was great at first but once they added a transit bus from baltimore to columbia 15-18 years ago that was the beginning of the end. And about 5 years  More

Columbia can be described in one word: unequal. The neighborhood I live in, River Hill, is jam-packed with almost million-dollar homes, while the neighborhoods of Long  More