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New Canaan Ranked
#1 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#1 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas
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#2 Best States for LGBTQ Rights
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#11 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)
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#15 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)
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#21 2005 High Gas Prices
Gas prices recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down. Today the average U.S. family with two drivers p... Read More

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#27 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
Bars and clubs that promote the ubiquitous "Ladies Night" might be surprised to find their citys gender gap favors the men. S... Read More

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#29 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#30 2005 Best Places to Live
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#35 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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#39 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
Gas prices have recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down any time soon. The average U.S. family with tw... Read More

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#63 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#77 The Most Single Cities
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#145 2005 Best Places to Live
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#176 Best Green Cities
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#181 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Pinehurst


Pinehurst, NC has never been in one of our rankings. Do you think this is a mistake? Tell us what you think is great or not so great about his place.
Reviews for New Canaan    3 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

Beautiful town with wonderful people. Great place to raise children, however, it is extremely costly to live  More

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Over 16 years ago

Agreed, cost of living is too high, too many wall streeters (which have a bad rep nowadays), and diversity is almost non-existant, public schools are average/good but  More

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Outside of the other categories, which run very well here; schools are good and competitive, climate is relatively mild, crime is very low, diversity is strong, culture  More

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Reviews for Pinehurst    3 Reviews

I've lived here all my life, born and raised. This area is and will always be known for golf but we also have a really big horse community. The area is a well know  More

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Over 17 years ago

We have to travel 1 to 2 hours to have anything to do. So if you want to live in a small town and don't mind traveling out of town for good restaurants, ball games, and  More

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Over 17 years ago

Pinehurst is a small town that is growing rapidly. It once attracted those that were retiring or vacationing. Void of the bright lights, but plenty to do. People of  More

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