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North Syracuse, NY vs Santa Cruz, CA

#3 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#4 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#13 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#39 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#44 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#57 Best Green Cities

#59 The Most Single Cities

#61 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#73 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#73 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#246 2005 Best Places to Live

#18 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#27 Best Green Cities

#41 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#124 2005 Best Places to Live

Quiet neighborhood north of Syracuse. 10 minute drive to downtown. Plenty of snow in winter. Warm but not too hot in  More

Upstate NY and the Syracuse suburbs do have very good schools systems relative to other areas of the country. Liverpool, North Syracuse, Baldwinsville, Westhill, West  More

I lived in the Santa Cruz area for 20 years. UCSC alum. Our kids were born there. There are wonderful things about Santa Cruz, but also many serious problems that we  More

I have been here for four generations! My kids are the fifth. I guess that should tell you how wonderful it is here, at least for us. It's so cool to have world class  More

I was born over the hill in San Jose area, and as a kid I loved coming over to the boardwalk. Santa Cruz has always been and always will be a town of diversity,  More