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Thornton, CO vs Lenexa, KS

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#11 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#13 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#14 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#14 Best Block Party Places

#15 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#15 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#15 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#17 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#18 Best Baseball Cities

#19 America's Top Hygge Cities

#20 Most Energetic Cities

#23 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#23 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#24 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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#26 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

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#27 America's Most Playful Cities

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#29 2005 High Gas Prices

#30 Healthiest Cities

#30 Hypertension Hot Spots

#33 Gloomiest Places in America

#34 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#36 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#36 Stressful Cities 2012

#36 Sleepless Cities 2011

#39 Failure To Lunch

#44 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#44 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#58 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#60 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#60 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#64 The Most Single Cities

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Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

...At what cost? If you drive through Lenexa late at night, unless you are driving a newer vehicle, you are pretty likely to be pulled over by police officers to explain  More

The calendar truly follows the seasons in the Kansas City area. There are four season. On December 21, it feels like winter; spring shows up promptly in late March.   More

We moved into Lenexa near Woodland and K-10 Hwy in 2008. This area of town is highly recommended to other families. This location has access to many new paths/trails,  More