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Lancaster Ranked
#2 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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Lancaster Ranked
#2 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat
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#43 Best Cities for Board Gamers
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#47 Gloomiest Places in America
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#50 America's Top Hygge Cities
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Rankings for Hershey

Hershey Ranked
#1 America's Migraine Hot Spots
Everybody gets a headache now and then, but did you know that the severe headaches known as migraines affect over 29 million Am... Read More

Hershey Ranked
#7 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)
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#14 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings
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#19 America’s Least Manly Cities
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#21 Best Green Cities
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Hershey Ranked
#26 America’s Manliest Cities
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#32 America’s Manliest Sports Cities
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#40 Americas Manliest Cites 2011
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Hershey Ranked
#43 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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Hershey Ranked
#44 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#46 2005 Best Places to Live
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Hershey Ranked
#68 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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Hershey Ranked
#99 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
Between international terrorism and a struggling economy, todays Americans are faced with more stress than ever. In this new s... Read More

Reviews for Lancaster    48 Reviews

Worse than even Compton in some ways... worse than hell overall. This place is so bad you will want to off yourself every day just by being here, but probably not too  More

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Over 5 years ago

I was born here, then grew up here for 17 years and joined the Army as a teen, but constantly went back to visit my parents and friends. I lived there again for 4 years  More

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Over 7 years ago

Moved to the Eastside of Lancaster. I have target, lowes, the whole wheatery, homedepot, bank of America, wells Fargo, Walmart, traders Joe's, Carl's jr, burger king,  More

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Reviews for Hershey    3 Reviews

Lived her most of my life, with a few years in locations close by. If moving to Central PA, Hershey is by far the best. It is a cute town where you will feel extremely  More

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Over 17 years ago

We moved to Hershey, PA 2 years ago and fell in love with it. It is a quaint town that hosts various community activities throughout the year. The schools are among  More

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Over 19 years ago

We live right next door to Hersheypark and there are many recreational programs within the city for  More

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