2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Mountain House, CA vs Bakersfield, CA

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

#40 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#41 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#42 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#85 The Most Single Cities

#97 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#307 Best Green Cities

#330 2005 Best Places to Live

#13 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#26 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#36 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

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

#77 2005 High Gas Prices

#88 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#94 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#95 The Most Single Cities

#282 2005 Best Places to Live

#300 Best Green Cities

I have lived in Mountain house for 11 years. I absolutely love it. You will not find a better sense of community anywhere. The schools are top rated, the people are  More

After covid 19 world i think it has proven best place to live with its price tag and awesome and diversified neighborhood with lots of parks , good rating schools. I  More

I have lived in this area for over two years now. Relative quiet, reasonable home prices, new schools, feel of a new community.  More

I am a millennial, born and raised here. As someone who wrestled with staying for years, there are a lot of valid reasons to not come to Bakersfield. Air quality, summer  More

I have lived here all of my life. 40+ years. It used to be fun and kinda safe but now it is so scary to go outside. We are literally a homeless dumping ground and there  More

I moved here from Seattle 25 years ago, when it had a population of 200,000, and practically the only place to get coffee was a place called “Duke’s Ranch”. Why did I  More