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Ridgecrest, CA vs Clovis, CA

#13 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#26 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#36 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

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

#77 2005 High Gas Prices

#88 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#94 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#95 The Most Single Cities

#282 2005 Best Places to Live

#300 Best Green Cities

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

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

#28 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#28 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#38 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#47 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#67 2005 High Gas Prices

#69 The Most Single Cities

#76 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#92 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#101 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#116 2005 Best Places to Live

#191 Best Green Cities

For context, I grew up in Ridgecrest and moved away after graduating high school. I have since lived in LA and the Bay Area but I visit RC often. RC is in the high  More

Ridgecrest and Kern County are red state bastions in a land of blue voting counties. If you want a concealed weapons permit, you'll get it. Want to own any firearm  More

The hardest thing to get used to in Ridgecrest is the weather. It can get quite windy. And hot. 115 hot. But it's a dry heat! It does cool off in the evening, and it  More

It is unfair to have Clovis with such a good rating and Fresno have such a low one. Because Clovis relies a lot on Fresno for stores and things to do, while many of  More

We have lived in Clovis for seven years, and find the people to be very friendly, the views of the mountains gorgeous, the winters are mild ( no snow! ), and summers  More

Clovis is a great family-oriented rapidly growing community with a very moderate climate however the California drought may have some effects on this community.  More