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

#58 2005 Best Places to Live

#189 Best Green Cities

#1 Hurricane Hotspots

#2 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

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

#3 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#3 Stressful Cities 2012

#6 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#7 The Most Single Cities

#7 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#8 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#13 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#14 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#14 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#14 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#15 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#20 America’s Least Manly Cities

#21 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#23 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#24 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#25 Most Energetic Cities

#27 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#28 Healthiest Cities

#29 Best Baseball Cities

#29 Sleepless Cities 2011

#29 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#32 Failure To Lunch

#33 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#35 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#35 Hypertension Hot Spots

#36 America's Most Playful Cities

#38 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#41 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#42 America’s Manliest Cities

#43 Sleep in the City Study

#43 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#44 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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

#47 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#47 Best Block Party Places

#48 America's Top Hygge Cities

#49 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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

#50 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#57 2005 Best Places to Live

#58 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#59 2005 High Gas Prices

#66 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#69 2005 Best Places to Live

#81 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#84 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#125 2005 Best Places to Live

#172 Best Green Cities

#241 Best Green Cities

My wife and I have lived in Ocala as retirees since 2014 and we love it here. It is definitely a place for retired folks. There is lots to do here for us. As for  More

I lived here for 12 years during my 20's to early 30's. Raised my children and started careers. This place offered plenty of work, good neighbors and lots of memories.  More

I like this city, a small town and a lot to offer for adults between 30 to seniors. Now if you planing to move with teens is not for you, unless you coming from another  More

I lived there for 25 years and it used to be awesome but it has gone downhill a LOT the past 10 years and a lot of people are leaving for that reason or would if they  More

Job and real estate markets still sluggish and we are finding it difficult to get  More

Great place to live. Good place for shopping, golfing and schools. central location in respect  More