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Port Lavaca, TX vs Port Arthur, TX

#5 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)

#5 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

#31 2005 High Gas Prices

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

#183 2005 Best Places to Live

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Port Lavaca is an amazing place. We have our problems but the city is a cultural heritage location for Eastern European Immigrants. Especially Hungary and Czech  More

Ground Zero for flesh eating bacteria. You cant eat the fish. A guy died just 17 miles South because the bacteria got into his intestines. Pass this place  More

(1) I lived there 2 years. Here's what they don't tell you. This town leads the State of Texas for flesh eating bacteria. Dont touch the water! There is no beach other  More

Port arthur and surrounding areas CONS: hot and very humid summers cant go outside during summer hungry mosquitos chase you. Most pdople on the road especially with  More

Seattle, here we  More

I live in the Port Acres area of Port Arthur and I like the rural area very much. I do have to wonder what kind of hallucinogenic drugs he had used prior to writing his  More