2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Metairie, LA vs Virginia Beach, VA

#2 Best Block Party Places

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

#3 Most Congested Cities

#4 Sleepless Cities 2011

#5 The Most Single Cities

#9 Hurricane Hotspots

#11 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#13 Best Baseball Cities

#13 Hypertension Hot Spots

#15 Failure To Lunch

#16 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#16 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#17 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#17 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#20 America's Most Playful Cities

#20 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#22 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#25 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#27 America’s Manliest Cities

#31 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#33 America’s Least Manly Cities

#33 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#34 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#39 America's Top Hygge Cities

#39 Gloomiest Places in America

#45 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#46 Sleep in the City Study

#46 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#47 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#48 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#50 Healthiest Cities

#65 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#72 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#93 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#139 2005 Best Places to Live

#275 Best Green Cities

#2 Best Places for Military Retirees

#4 Most Competitive Public Colleges

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

#8 America's Most Playful Cities

#10 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#10 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#17 2005 Best Places to Live

#19 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#21 Best Block Party Places

#24 Gloomiest Places in America

#24 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#28 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#29 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#29 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#29 America's Top Hygge Cities

#30 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#30 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#32 Sleepless Cities 2011

#32 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#33 Best Baseball Cities

#36 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#39 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#39 Healthiest Cities

#40 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#42 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#45 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#45 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#47 Stressful Cities 2012

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

#47 2005 High Gas Prices

#48 Failure To Lunch

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

#49 Most Energetic Cities

#50 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#75 The Most Single Cities

#87 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#96 Best Green Cities

I've been to Metairie a few times on bisiness, but I can't wait to go back and stay for a while. Lovely town nice people, lovely places. Lots to do. I recommend it  More

For Metairie, & New Orleans in general: Briefly, as a Geologist who has lived here for 30+ years, my view of the outlook for the New Orleans area is decidedly gloomy.   More

Metairie is not a city in the strictest terms. It’s a developed unincorporated area of Jefferson Parish that’s inextricably linked to the Metro New Orleans Area. Metaire  More

If you lived here prior to 2005, your experience in Virginia Beach is likely between good and wonderful. There are still pros to living here. Other reviews have  More

I lived in the Hampton Roads area for 11 years while I was in the Navy. It was a bit of a culture shock, since I grew up in a small rural town in Maine with 900 people.  More

I lived in the Kempsville area of VB growing up and loved it. There's no way to be bored when you have so many public and neighborhood parks, libraries, events,  More