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Sarasota, FL vs Fulton, NY

#88 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

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

#13 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#39 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#44 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#57 Best Green Cities

#59 The Most Single Cities

#61 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#73 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#73 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#246 2005 Best Places to Live

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

I grew up and attended school in Fulton from 1962 to late 1970's. It was a great place to live but the businesses eventually died off and unemployment became high. In  More

If you like snow and water this is a great area to live. The cost of living is low. You are very close to Lake Ontario, The Fingerlakes and the Erie Barge  More