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Manchester Ranked
#6 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Manchester Ranked
#7 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Manchester Ranked
#10 Best Places for Military Retirees
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#55 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Manchester Ranked
#78 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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Manchester Ranked
#151 2005 Best Places to Live
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#235 2005 Best Places to Live
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Manchester Ranked
#238 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Dover

Dover Ranked
#25 2005 Best Places to Live
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Dover Ranked
#29 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Dover Ranked
#154 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Manchester    8 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Manchester was a fine city to raise my little family, but as a single person again it isn't for me. It may be okay for some, maybe 20-somethings or 30-somethings, but  More

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Over 14 years ago

The snow wont stop, my phone was taken by a plow, roofs leaking from ice dams and are collapsing by weight of snow, its snowing now!  More

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Over 16 years ago

I lived in Manchester for one year for work purposes and absolutely loved it. Living in New Hampshire was the best place I ahve ever lived and if possible I would gladly  More

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Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 7 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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