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

#11 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

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#18 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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#21 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#22 America's Riskiest Online Cities

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#22 Best Baseball Cities

#22 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#24 2005 High Gas Prices

#28 Failure To Lunch

#28 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#29 America's Most Playful Cities

#29 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

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#32 Hypertension Hot Spots

#33 Stressful Cities 2012

#34 America’s Manliest Cities

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

#35 Healthiest Cities

#36 2005 Best Places to Live

#37 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#42 Gloomiest Places in America

#42 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#48 Most Competitive Public Colleges

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

#63 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#68 The Most Single Cities

#77 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#82 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#82 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#95 2005 Best Places to Live

#97 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#180 Best Green Cities

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I have lived here since 1975, I moved here from California but was born and raised in Michigan. I would have to say that I never regretted leaving Michigan and their  More

I’ve lived in Seattle for just under 7 years and while it can be a stunningly beautiful place, I am very excited to leave. I’ll start with some of the positive aspects.  More

if you can afford it, Seattle is a very nice place to live and raise a family! however, it is extremely expensive and in the winter, it's rather gloomy. i love gloomy  More

The City of Mesquite, TX has a big problem with overlooking serious problems involving safety of the roads and drunk drivers. There has been numerous accidents and  More

Everything is soooo spaced out which I hate the most coming from the Midwest where everything is about 15-20 minutes away. I live in Mesquite which is where people with  More

Mesquite, TX will not even enforce their own documented travel policies against violators consisting of some former and current (2009) council and staff. Although  More