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Simi Valley, CA vs Ottawa, IL

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#65 2005 High Gas Prices

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#92 The Most Single Cities

#96 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#147 2005 Best Places to Live

I've live in two different neighborhoods since fall of 1996 and depending on the neighborhood you're quality of life experience will vary. The price of housing is such  More

I have lived in Simi Valley for 23 Years. I love it here but due to the cost of living am looking to relocate to another state/City where my money will go further. Simi  More

simi valley is a very nice place to live within the shadow of the LA metro area. it has low crime and reasonable housing costs with ready access to indoor and outdoor  More

Have all of the radiation sites been cleaned up? If not, did the tornado stir up and blast some radiation from these sites to other  More

Good location with low cost of living and close enough to Chicago and suburbs to take advantage of their  More

Although Ottawa is a very nice place to live, living here is becoming rediculous...as taxes go. I bought a house less then four years ago and my taxed went from  More