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#54 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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#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

#4 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#6 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#7 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#8 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#8 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#8 Gloomiest Places in America

#11 America's Top Hygge Cities

#13 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#14 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#15 Hypertension Hot Spots

#16 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#17 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#17 America’s Manliest Cities

#18 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#20 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#20 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#23 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#24 The Most Single Cities

#25 Failure To Lunch

#26 Most Energetic Cities

#27 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#27 Healthiest Cities

#28 America’s Least Manly Cities

#31 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#34 Sleepless Cities 2011

#36 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#38 Best Block Party Places

#39 Stressful Cities 2012

#40 Best Baseball Cities

#42 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#43 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

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

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

#46 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#49 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#62 2005 High Gas Prices

#82 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#136 Best Green Cities

#198 2005 Best Places to Live

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 lived in waukesha for 37 years. It's home, it's where I grew up but it's a bit of a dump. They're trying hard to make it nice but its just not that great of a place to  More

I lived in Waukesha in 2006 while on a contract position for a precast design company. I found Waukesha to be a very enjoyable place to live. It is a very place to live  More

Waukesha is a small city, 65K population, with the amenities of a larger town. Its access to library, daily shopping, mainline restaurant fare and outside activity is  More