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Tampa, FL vs Waynesville, NC

#1 Stressful Cities 2012

#3 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#4 Hurricane Hotspots

#5 Sleepless Cities 2011

#7 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#8 Best Baseball Cities

#9 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#9 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#10 Hypertension Hot Spots

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#13 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#13 2005 High Gas Prices

#14 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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#16 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#18 The Most Single Cities

#18 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#19 Most Congested Cities

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

#25 America’s Manliest Cities

#25 America's Most Playful Cities

#27 Best Cities for Board Gamers

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

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

#30 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#30 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#32 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#33 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#37 Best Block Party Places

#38 Failure To Lunch

#39 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#40 Healthiest Cities

#42 America's Top Hygge Cities

#42 America’s Least Manly Cities

#43 Gloomiest Places in America

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

#44 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#47 Most Energetic Cities

#48 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#50 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#52 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#72 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#90 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#204 Best Green Cities

#8 2005 Best Places to Live

#25 Best Green Cities

#32 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

The people in Tampa are fantastic but the city is a total bore. All events are always in South Tampa and never elsewhere, ie, North Tampa. The north end never  More

I've lived in small towns before and now for the past 25 years in this large metropolis. It's a very nice city. Lots of jobs, shopping restaurants, churches, Busch  More

This is my favorite city that I have ever lived in. I am reading all of these terrible reviews for Tampa, but then when I read what people are writing, they are actually  More

The post below was written a little less than 10 years ago and only a few months prior to my move to Waynesville. Anyone who moves to any city should do research before  More

Waynesville is a small town trying to keep up with the big dogs across the mountains. It puts on shows and have festivals downtown but it is not good enough. I have  More

For those of us who weren't reared there, Waynesville, NC lends itself best to being a small-town retirement community. The "Gateway to the Smokies" is a blissfully  More