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Melbourne, FL vs Jacksonville, FL

#7 Hurricane Hotspots

#21 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#50 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#64 2005 Best Places to Live

#85 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#252 Best Green Cities

#4 Stressful Cities 2012

#6 Most Affordable Colleges

#7 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#9 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#9 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#11 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#11 2005 High Gas Prices

#13 Failure To Lunch

#18 Hypertension Hot Spots

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

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

#19 Most Energetic Cities

#20 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#21 America’s Manliest Cities

#21 Best Baseball Cities

#22 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#24 Sleepless Cities 2011

#29 America’s Least Manly Cities

#33 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#33 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#33 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#33 America's Top Hygge Cities

#35 America's Most Playful Cities

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

#37 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#37 Gloomiest Places in America

#39 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#46 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#47 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#48 Best Block Party Places

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

#48 The Most Single Cities

#53 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#53 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#82 2005 Best Places to Live

#86 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#288 Best Green Cities

Moved here from Ohio 3 months ago, trying not to be disappointed, there isn't much to do, its really small and shopping is bad. I wanted out of Cleveland but didn't  More

I have lived in many areas of this town. It is growing and has a nice selection of older and very new areas. The access to beaches and parks is quick and well kept.   More

The rating on here is accurate. Crime is rather high. There's shootings and killings constantly. If you're coming from another state, just check floridatoday.com at  More

I moved from a small town in Ohio around four years ago, I was 24 years old. Now, at 28, my outlook about living here has changed. I have came to the conclusion, that,  More

I’ve lived in Jacksonville for 12+ years(but visited on and off much longer). There’s things I love and things I hate and just like any place there are pros and cons.  More

We have been investigating Jax for a while. It looks like the Southside, Baymeadows and the further East you get is great. Any thoughts on moving to those areas, pretty  More