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Sparks Ranked
#9 2005 Best Places to Live
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#60 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#63 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#131 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor Ranked
#6 2005 Best Places to Live
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#8 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#11 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)
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#11 Best Green Cities
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#12 Most Competitive Public Colleges
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#95 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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Reviews for Sparks    14 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

Nice place to live. Lots of events, recreation, and  More

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LOVE it! Fifth generation Reno/Sparks native. Paternal great grandparents born and raised in Reno. Sparks has an old fashioned home town feeling. I love Sparks! Great  More

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Over 17 years ago

Do not listen to the Californian. Sparks has all 4 seasons. It does snow here but the snow is very wet and melts quickly and it does not snow six months out of the year.  More

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Reviews for Ann Arbor    49 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

Highly educated city. traffic and parking is bad. university culture is nice, not sure about elsewhere. no good pizza! if you're looking for food, I recommend "a taste  More

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Uh, compared to my other favorite college towns this one lacks flavor. Safer and kinda pretty, but not the greenest place, it's fine. Good restaurants, music, art,  More

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Over 10 years ago

Ann Arbor bus service (AATA) is quite good. The Detroit Metro Airport is only a 20 min. drive away and is also quite good. The traffic in Ann Arbor is usually mild  More

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