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La Grande, OR vs Lake Oswego, OR

#1 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#2 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#2 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#2 Gloomiest Places in America

#2 America's Top Hygge Cities

#3 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#4 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#4 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#5 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#5 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#6 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

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

#7 America's Most Playful Cities

#8 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#10 America's Riskiest Online Cities

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

#11 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#12 2005 Best Places to Live

#13 America’s Least Manly Cities

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

#16 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

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

#16 Healthiest Cities

#17 Best Block Party Places

#20 Stressful Cities 2012

#20 Best Baseball Cities

#23 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#23 Failure To Lunch

#26 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#27 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#27 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#35 Most Energetic Cities

#37 Hypertension Hot Spots

#37 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#39 The Most Single Cities

#40 Best Green Cities

#40 Sleepless Cities 2011

#43 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#47 America’s Manliest Cities

#47 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#49 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#51 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#70 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#71 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#76 2005 High Gas Prices

#82 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

When I moved to LaGrande in 2018, my son decided to go to college there. If you are curious about the EOU education, it's what a kid makes of it. He completed a degree  More

Don’t be fooled by thinking that scenery equals a good place to live. The town is too isolated to be this small with an over abundance of small minded, ignorant people  More

Growing up in a different small town and making the journey to La Grande for college (home of Eastern Oregon University), I found the migration to La Grande's community  More

I have lived occasionally in Lake Oswego with my sister who married a LO man and found it very sweet. He was raised there by hard-working parents who had fantastic work  More

Retired in Lake Oswego to be close to family and Live in a beautiful little city. We call it Paradise. We’ve had part-time property in Oregon for 20 years and we have  More

Ive lived here 22 years and it has gone from a charming small town to a congested pass thru neighborhood. People are rude, traffic a nightmare and we hate it here but  More