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#2 2005 Best Places to Live

#9 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#30 Best Green Cities

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

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

#1 Best Block Party Places

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#2 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#2 Most Energetic Cities

#3 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#4 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#4 Best Places for Military Retirees

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

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

#5 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#5 The Best Cities to Relocate to in America

#6 Best Cities After Military Service

#7 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

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

#9 Sleep in the City Study

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#10 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#14 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#14 Most Congested Cities

#18 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#20 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#22 2005 High Gas Prices

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#22 America's Top Hygge Cities

#24 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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#27 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#27 The Most Single Cities

#29 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#32 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#32 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#32 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#34 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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#35 Sleepless Cities 2011

#38 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#40 Hypertension Hot Spots

#40 Failure To Lunch

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#41 Gloomiest Places in America

#52 Best Green Cities

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

#65 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#91 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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I’ve recently moved to Santa Fe from Colorado. I love Santa Fe for various reasons… mostly because of the tricultural aspects of it. We have amazing Native American,  More

Bought a house here in 2013 and split my time here with other house in Adirondack Mountains of NYS. Santa Fe is great, but not perfect. Love the climate. 306 days of  More

The only 2 things about Santa Fe that are nice is the scenery and the weather. But, those two things cannot bring about the total comfort and homeyness that makes a city  More

Lockhart's cost of living is better than Austin in several ways. While Austin is only a short 30 minute drive and the traffic there is unbearable, Lockhart has typical  More

a nice little town, we moved here from calif and we love it. my husband works in austin its a very easy commute on the toll way. its a pretty historic town with lots of  More