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National City, CA vs Citrus Heights, CA

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#4 Best Baseball Cities

#4 Failure To Lunch

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#7 Best-Rested Cities 2011

#7 Healthiest Cities

#8 Stressful Cities 2012

#9 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#11 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#12 America’s Least Manly Cities

#13 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#13 America's Most Playful Cities

#16 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#19 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#19 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#26 Gloomiest Places in America

#29 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#31 The Most Single Cities

#31 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#31 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#31 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#33 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#35 America's Top Hygge Cities

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

#39 Hypertension Hot Spots

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

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

#40 Most Energetic Cities

#41 America’s Manliest Cities

#43 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#44 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#45 Best Block Party Places

#46 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#46 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#47 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#48 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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

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#53 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#57 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#60 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#69 2005 High Gas Prices

#85 2005 Best Places to Live

#91 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#103 Best Green Cities

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When you can't afford to live anywhere else in the main San Diego metro area...you live in National City or El Cajon. El Cajon has the higher poverty rate, but National  More

We bought our home here 23 years ago. I was pregnant when we moved in and we have raised three children here now all adults. We are close to schools and at the time it  More

When we moved into Citrus Heights 7 years ago, it felt like it was on the upswing and we were comfortable taking daily walks through many neighborhoods. Now, we find  More

We've lived in the area for nearly 15 years. While we used to appreciate the heat of the summer, it seems to be wearing us down. We intend to move to a more moderate  More