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Sammamish, WA vs Brentwood, CA

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

#1 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#1 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#1 Gloomiest Places in America

#1 America's Top Hygge Cities

#2 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#2 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

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

#4 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#4 Healthiest Cities

#4 America’s Least Manly Cities

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

#5 America's Most Playful Cities

#6 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#6 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#6 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#8 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#8 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#8 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#8 Safest Places from Natural Disasters

#8 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Lowest Risk)

#8 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#9 Stressful Cities 2012

#10 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#10 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#10 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#11 Failure To Lunch

#12 The Most Single Cities

#16 Best Block Party Places

#16 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#19 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#22 Sleepless Cities 2011

#28 Best Baseball Cities

#30 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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

#32 Best Green Cities

#35 Most Irritation Prone Cities

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#41 Hypertension Hot Spots

#41 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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#44 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#46 Most Energetic Cities

#55 2005 High Gas Prices

#58 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#59 2005 Best Places to Live

#59 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#66 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#66 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#151 Best Green Cities

#1 Best Baseball Cities

#1 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#1 America’s Least Manly Cities

#1 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#1 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#1 The Most Single Cities

#1 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#2 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#3 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#3 Healthiest Cities

#3 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#4 America's Most Playful Cities

#4 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#5 Best-Rested Cities 2011

#5 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#5 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#6 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#6 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#6 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#7 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#7 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#8 Failure To Lunch

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

#10 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#13 Stressful Cities 2012

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

#19 Best Green Cities

#19 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#23 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#24 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#25 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#26 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#28 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#29 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#31 Best Block Party Places

#34 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#37 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#37 America's Top Hygge Cities

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

#40 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#42 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#42 Sleep in the City Study

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

#44 America’s Manliest Cities

#45 Most Energetic Cities

#46 Sleepless Cities 2011

#47 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#50 Hypertension Hot Spots

#57 2005 High Gas Prices

#96 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#107 2005 Best Places to Live

Seattle has beautiful greenery and gorgeous mountain views. It is quite dark and gloomy for much of the late fall into spring...or July 5th as locals know quite well. I  More

Housing seems to be very overpriced, however after all things considered, it is well worth it. (Family of  More

Sammamish is honestly a wonderful place to live. It's perfect for a family who wants a comfortable entertaining suburban life. The schools are pretty great, as I can say  More

Brentwood, 50 miles east of San Francisco, has a great climate. We are in a valley, east of Mount Diablo. We get a few weeks of pretty hot days - 100+, but the rest of  More

I love living in Brentwood. Our city planners and workers have done an excellent job in creating a beautiful city filled with trees, parks, well- planned communities,  More

We moved to a new “Active Adults” (over 55) housing development in Brentwood about 6 years ago. The location is great if you like to fish, go pleasure-boating, or water  More