2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Scottsdale, AZ vs Carpinteria, CA

#6 Failure To Lunch

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

#10 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#10 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#10 America's Most Playful Cities

#10 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#13 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#15 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#18 Stressful Cities 2012

#19 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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

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

#21 Healthiest Cities

#21 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#22 America’s Manliest Cities

#23 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#24 America’s Least Manly Cities

#25 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#28 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#32 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#32 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#33 Most Energetic Cities

#33 Hypertension Hot Spots

#33 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#33 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#34 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#35 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#37 The Most Single Cities

#38 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#38 Sleepless Cities 2011

#40 2005 High Gas Prices

#40 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#42 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#44 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#44 Best Block Party Places

#45 America's Top Hygge Cities

#45 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#50 Gloomiest Places in America

#54 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#72 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#80 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#115 Best Green Cities

#273 2005 Best Places to Live

It's been a long time since I visited Scottsdale after visiting a few times a decade ago. It used to be more of an area that deserved it's punchlines for being stuck up  More

My son went to ASU in '99 which is how we ended up here from Northern Illinois. Over the years we came out for vacations and bought a second home until we finally made  More

I lived in San Jose for 30 years...in the late '50s. I walked thru cherry orchards to school. After college classes, I drove 20 minutes to the beach. San Francisco was  More

Only trouble is, there's no place to go that's better.  More

Cost of living in my area is very high, but especially  More