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Portland, OR vs Bismarck, ND

#1 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#2 America's Top Hygge Cities

#2 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#2 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#2 Gloomiest Places in America

#3 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#4 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#4 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#5 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#5 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

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

#6 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#7 America's Most Playful Cities

#8 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#9 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

#10 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#11 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#12 2005 Best Places to Live

#13 America’s Least Manly Cities

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

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

#16 Healthiest Cities

#16 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#17 Best Block Party Places

#20 Stressful Cities 2012

#20 Best Baseball Cities

#23 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#23 Failure To Lunch

#26 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#27 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#27 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#35 Most Energetic Cities

#37 Hypertension Hot Spots

#37 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#39 The Most Single Cities

#40 Sleepless Cities 2011

#40 Best Green Cities

#43 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#47 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#47 America’s Manliest Cities

#49 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#51 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#70 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#71 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#76 2005 High Gas Prices

#82 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#3 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#4 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)

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

#117 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#140 Best Green Cities

#195 2005 Best Places to Live

I lived in Portland for 19 years (I've also lived in Boise, ID, the Bay Area, Austin, TX and now Nampa, ID). It drives me nuts when people try to give a large city a  More

One of the best cities in America. Food scene is the best in the world. Weather is preferable over places where you have the same weather year round. I enjoy the  More

I moved from Houston to Portland about a year ago. I remember reading the reviews on here and it making me second guess moving before I did, so I wanted to come back and  More

I have lived in many places throughout the U.S. I came here with my job and can't wait to leave. This city may be right for some people, but it's definitely not for  More

I have lived in a small town about 45 minutes away from Bismarck and then moved to University of Mary 5 years ago and have lived in Bismarck ever since. I am still at  More

What is fun about Bismarck much anything around to go too ? such as lakes parks good fishing and other things resorts and casinos  More