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#1 Hurricane Hotspots

#2 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

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

#3 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#3 Stressful Cities 2012

#6 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#7 The Most Single Cities

#7 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#8 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#13 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#14 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#14 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#14 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#15 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#20 America’s Least Manly Cities

#21 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#23 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#24 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#25 Most Energetic Cities

#27 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#28 Healthiest Cities

#29 Best Baseball Cities

#29 Sleepless Cities 2011

#29 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#32 Failure To Lunch

#33 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#35 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#35 Hypertension Hot Spots

#36 America's Most Playful Cities

#38 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#41 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#42 America’s Manliest Cities

#43 Sleep in the City Study

#43 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#44 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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

#47 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#47 Best Block Party Places

#48 America's Top Hygge Cities

#49 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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

#50 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#57 2005 Best Places to Live

#58 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#59 2005 High Gas Prices

#66 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#69 2005 Best Places to Live

#81 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#84 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#125 2005 Best Places to Live

#172 Best Green Cities

#241 Best Green Cities

#2 Best Baseball Cities

#4 Best Block Party Places

#5 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#6 America’s Manliest Cities

#8 Hypertension Hot Spots

#9 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#10 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#10 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#11 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#11 Most Congested Cities

#12 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

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

#14 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#14 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#16 Failure To Lunch

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

#17 Stressful Cities 2012

#19 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#19 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#19 Sleepless Cities 2011

#20 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#21 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#22 Gloomiest Places in America

#22 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#23 America's Top Hygge Cities

#23 2005 High Gas Prices

#24 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#26 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#28 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#30 America's Most Playful Cities

#32 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#33 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#34 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#34 Healthiest Cities

#36 America’s Least Manly Cities

#40 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#41 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#41 Sleep in the City Study

#41 Most Energetic Cities

#44 The Most Single Cities

#46 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#63 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#97 2005 Best Places to Live

#318 Best Green Cities

Great vacation spot with the best clubs and food. Wynwood and the Miami Design District are the best, just be careful at night. Area tends to jack prices up around  More

Miami is rapidly devolving into a filthy, crime ridden, unattractive extension of Central America and South America. The population is a bunch of rude entitled dependent  More

Beautiful place, well into the late 20th Century ... clean, safe, fun, peaceful. Started seeing elements of crap, just a tiny bit, back around 1980. Now what changed  More

My wife, daughter, and I moved here from Phoenix Metro March 2022 and have been very happy with our move. The people have been great, having four seasons is great, and  More

Not sure why such low reviews. I moved here from St. Louis. Crime in Alton is NOTHING compared to that. Maybe 1 or 2 homicides a year and those are generally people  More

Unfortunately, Alton has become a run down, poverty stricken area. Jobs are very limited and do not pay well. Unless you plan on commuting to St. Louis for work, you  More