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Odessa, TX vs New Orleans, LA

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

#283 2005 Best Places to Live

#358 Best Green Cities

#2 Best Block Party Places

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

#3 Most Congested Cities

#4 Sleepless Cities 2011

#5 The Most Single Cities

#9 Hurricane Hotspots

#11 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#13 Hypertension Hot Spots

#13 Best Baseball Cities

#15 Failure To Lunch

#16 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#16 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#17 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#17 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#20 America's Most Playful Cities

#20 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#22 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

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

#25 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#27 America’s Manliest Cities

#31 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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

#33 America’s Least Manly Cities

#33 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#34 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#39 Gloomiest Places in America

#39 America's Top Hygge Cities

#45 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#46 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#46 Sleep in the City Study

#47 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#48 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#50 Healthiest Cities

#65 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#72 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#93 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#139 2005 Best Places to Live

#275 Best Green Cities

You need to be a friendly person who likes people, isn't afraid to work hard, and have a strength of character that can handle challenges to make it here. Odessa sits on  More

I think Odessa is a perfect little west Texas town. There is pride in our homes, pride in our community and pride in our kids. No, it's not a fancy place, but you won't  More

Listen to me!!! Do not move to this place!! I was born in this dump and couldnt wait to leave! if you are anything but caucassion your opertunities are very very  More

I have lived in NOLA for 6 years. Like all cities, you must take the good with the bad. It is more expensive than what you read about on the internet. The drivers are  More

I've lived here for going on 3 years. The person who lives with me wanted us to move here. It got old for me very soon after we moved here. Neither of us like it.   More

Lived here 20 years, transplant from a dank Midwestern metropolis. For the first 15 years I was pretty much one of those rabid people foaming at the mouth whenever  More