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#4 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#4 Gloomiest Places in America

#6 Best Block Party Places

#6 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#7 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#7 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#9 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#10 America's Top Hygge Cities

#10 Most Energetic Cities

#12 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#13 The Most Single Cities

#14 Hypertension Hot Spots

#15 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

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

#17 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#19 America’s Manliest Cities

#21 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#22 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#23 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#24 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#26 Best Baseball Cities

#30 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#31 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#34 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#35 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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

#39 Sleepless Cities 2011

#40 America’s Least Manly Cities

#40 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#41 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#43 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#43 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#44 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#44 Failure To Lunch

#47 Healthiest Cities

#48 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#49 Sleep in the City Study

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

#54 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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

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

#79 2005 High Gas Prices

#80 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#264 2005 Best Places to Live

#326 Best Green Cities

#2 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#4 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)

#4 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

#6 Hurricane Hotspots

#9 Most Congested Cities

#9 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#10 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#11 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

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

#15 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#16 Best Baseball Cities

#16 2005 High Gas Prices

#17 Most Energetic Cities

#17 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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

#19 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#20 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#21 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#22 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#24 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#25 Sleepless Cities 2011

#26 Stressful Cities 2012

#29 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#30 Failure To Lunch

#32 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#33 Best Block Party Places

#34 Hypertension Hot Spots

#35 America’s Least Manly Cities

#35 Gloomiest Places in America

#36 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#36 Healthiest Cities

#39 America’s Manliest Cities

#39 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#40 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#40 America's Top Hygge Cities

#41 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#43 America's Most Playful Cities

#44 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#48 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#74 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#82 The Most Single Cities

#95 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#96 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#99 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#105 2005 Best Places to Live

#158 2005 Best Places to Live

#248 Best Green Cities

Lakewood, Ohio has the best of everything. Restaurants, small business, walkability, library, theater, schools, century homes, front porches, neighborhoods, parks, Lake  More

If you get a job in Cleveland, THIS IS THE PLACE TO LIVE! It has something for everybody. I was raised here and never knew anything else at this time. Once I went away  More

I haven't lived here, but have spent a lot of time in the area, and most certainly will move here when I finally can move back to the Cleveland area in a few years. I  More

I moved to Houston from the San Francisco Bay area in 1991 after college but I have always had family here. Houston is not what you think of when you think of Texas  More

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More