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

#2 Sleepless Cities 2011

#2 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#2 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#3 The Most Single Cities

#3 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#4 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#5 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

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

#5 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

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

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#7 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#7 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#8 Most Affordable Colleges

#8 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#9 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#10 Failure To Lunch

#10 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#11 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#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 Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#14 America’s Least Manly Cities

#15 Gloomiest Places in America

#15 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#16 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#16 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#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

#29 Most Energetic Cities

#29 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#29 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#34 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#34 America's Top Hygge Cities

#35 Best Baseball Cities

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

#35 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#40 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#42 Hypertension Hot Spots

#43 2005 High Gas Prices

#45 Sleep in the City Study

#49 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#50 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#50 America’s Manliest Cities

#75 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#106 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#234 Best Green Cities

#10 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#83 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#163 Best Green Cities

#318 2005 Best Places to Live

PROS: Close to the water, very picturesque, hilly and not flat like much of Long Island. High quality of life, low crime rate, clean, hometown feeling. Community  More

Peaceful, execellent place to  More

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My husband and I are older, he is a disabled veteran and we are retired on moderate to low income. We have lived in different areas including SC. Some pros of living in  More

Jacksonville North Carolina is a great area to live considering the proximity to the beach and the low cost of living. The area has experienced tremendous growth in the  More

Hello, we will be moving to the Jacksonville area this fall and need some advice. We will be moving from TX, so we have never been to Jacksonville before and know  More