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Pacific Grove, CA vs Burlington, VT

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

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#153 2005 Best Places to Live

#1 Best Green Cities

#3 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#9 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#10 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#16 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Mid-Size Cities)

#37 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

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#232 2005 Best Places to Live

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

The good: beautiful, safe, walkable downtown, outdoors nearby. The bad: the woke nonsense is overwhelming, winters are long and brutal, dating scene is beyond  More

Having lived in the Burlington VT area for more than a decade, I wish I would have done my research before relocating. Yes, VT has some great draws- but the cons far out  More

If your a hippie you'll love Burlington! The grass is green all year round.  More