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Lake Oswego, OR vs Los Altos, CA

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

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

#17 Best Baseball Cities

#20 America's Riskiest Online Cities

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

#32 Gloomiest Places in America

#36 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#36 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#38 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#38 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

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

#40 The Most Single Cities

#42 Failure To Lunch

#44 America's Top Hygge Cities

#45 Stressful Cities 2012

#48 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#48 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#48 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#51 2005 High Gas Prices

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

#73 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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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

Expensive but worth  More

the quality of life here is very high however the cost of living is also high. extremely high as a matter of fact. I'd like to look at other communities that are less  More