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Scotts Valley, CA vs Anderson, CA

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#124 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#144 Best Green Cities

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We lived and worked in Scotts Valley for a number of years. It's a nice enough city, safe and clean unlike some areas of Santa Cruz. It's well managed and the schools  More

Great weather and small town feel but it is changing rapidly  More

Scotts Valley is an ideal, small town with many wonderful features. It's just 10 minutes from the beaches in nearby Santa Cruz yet doesn't get the wet fog because it's  More

Got stabbed by a meth head, 3  More

We moved here seven years ago, from Livermore, CA. We find it very peaceful here with traffic jams being eight cars at a stop sign. No kidding, you can have all the  More

It really seems dirty and run-down. It is nothing like the town I remember back in the early  More