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#7 Safest Places from Natural Disasters

#15 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#54 Best Green Cities

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

#82 2005 High Gas Prices

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

#141 2005 Best Places to Live

#4 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#6 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#7 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#8 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#8 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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#20 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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#27 Healthiest Cities

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#34 Sleepless Cities 2011

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#38 Best Block Party Places

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#42 America's Riskiest Online Cities

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

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

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

#46 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

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#62 2005 High Gas Prices

#82 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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After reading the reviews here, I had to come write my own. The problem I had with most of the reviews is that most were very opinion-based and seemed to assume everyone  More

Moved here approx. 4 years ago from SW Michigan, but I've lived in 9 other cities & 5 other states. Salem is a very manageable sized city, with tons of parks, diverse  More

I'm a native 5th generation Oregonian, so bear in mind that I was born with webs between my toes! Anyway, I used to think it rained too much when I was young. Then I  More

Port is an hidden gem on the north side of Milwaukee. Downtown that is being revitalized, beautiful lakefront setting and you can walk  More

gorgous spring and fall, but too damn cold and long winters, humid  More