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#2 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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#2 Sleepless Cities 2011

#3 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#3 The Most Single Cities

#4 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

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

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#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#7 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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#8 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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#10 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#10 Failure To Lunch

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#12 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#13 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#14 Healthiest Cities

#14 America’s Least Manly Cities

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

#15 Gloomiest Places in America

#15 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#16 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#16 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#19 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#24 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#25 Best Block Party Places

#25 Stressful Cities 2012

#28 America's Most Playful Cities

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#29 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#29 Most Energetic Cities

#34 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#34 America's Top Hygge Cities

#35 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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

#35 Best Baseball Cities

#40 2005 Best Places to Live

#42 Hypertension Hot Spots

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

#43 2005 High Gas Prices

#45 Sleep in the City Study

#49 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#50 America’s Manliest Cities

#50 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#75 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#106 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#234 Best Green Cities

#8 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#16 Best Green Cities

#18 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#68 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

Your standard, run-of-the-mill suburb, complete with strip malls and endless suburban sprawl. I suppose it's ideal for well-off retirees, the beach is nice and has  More

High taxes but nice middle class town,schools are nice  More

nice schools dont believe what some people say,if you looking to live here you should come and drive around few blocks you will like it, its a nice middle class  More

I moved to Raleigh in 2018. Before that, I lived in Orange County CA, Boulder CO, South Africa, Northern California, Arizona, and Toronto. I say all this to give  More

Excellent for a great many people or categories of people. As far as prices: ratio of wage and job opportunity here with housing remains one of the better ones in the  More

I attended university here in the early 90s and came back around 2005 and never left. I'm surprised at the other negative reviews honestly. Yes, housing is pricey in  More