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Oak Ridge Ranked
#4 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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#10 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#42 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)
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#47 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
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#73 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
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#76 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#77 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#81 The Most Single Cities
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#103 2005 Best Places to Live
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#216 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Vallejo

Vallejo Ranked
#46 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Vallejo Ranked
#78 2005 Best Places to Live
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#193 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Oak Ridge    8 Reviews

Overall it's on the positive side. It's pretty boring but it can feel like a real home at times. It could stand to be a hair closer to Western Knoxville.. Melton lake  More

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Over 6 years ago

Oak Ridge is located in beautiful East TN, has excellent public schools, is very safe for families, and is only 15-30 min away from Knoxville.  More

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Marginal, at best. Lack of social and business skills to perform anything but menial tasks. No clue about customer service, business etiquette or basic business  More

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Reviews for Vallejo    32 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

If you move to Vallejo, you will quickly realize that you're paying a lot of money to live in well-polished squalor. I moved to Vallejo in mid-2008 just as the city  More

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Over 8 years ago

I would love to live in a place where there are not fireworks all year round or gunshots every night. Police are understaffed and overworked and this is coming from a  More

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Over 8 years ago

I've lived in Vallejo for 5 years I moved here from Alameda California where I spent about 3 years and before that was in Seattle for 18 years. People said to  More

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