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Sedro-Woolley, WA vs Merced, CA

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#2 Safest Places from Natural Disasters

#3 Emerging Metropolitan Areas

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#328 2005 Best Places to Live

If you like to be wet and soggy with rain this is the place for  More

Sedro Woolley ( pronounced seed-ro wool-ee) has a great climate. We have mild summers and winters too! A little crime but still small city. Close enough to the big  More

I don't have annual rainfall numbers to confirm that, but I wouldn't be surprised, as the Skagit Valley town of Sedro-Woolley is further away from large marine bodies of  More

Merced is totally slept on - you want a little bit of everything CA has to offer, at a fraction of the price of other CA cities? Merced is the place to go. The town  More

Good place to live. More affordable than most of california. The city is growing and there is alot of business and growth here. Moved from the Bay area years ago and  More

Great place to live. Lots of progress and changes coming to the city. Great place to raise a family. UC Merced is expanding and businesses are investing. Downtown is  More