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Thousand Oaks Ranked
#3 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#3 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)
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#5 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas
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#5 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
When it comes to summer and its accompanying hot weather, there are so many beautiful things - beach days, barbecues, revea... Read More

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#5 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat
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#20 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
Gas prices have recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down any time soon. The average U.S. family with tw... Read More

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#48 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#65 2005 High Gas Prices
Gas prices recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down. Today the average U.S. family with two drivers p... Read More

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#80 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#90 Best Green Cities
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#92 The Most Single Cities
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#96 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
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#147 2005 Best Places to Live
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Santa Cruz Ranked
#18 Most Competitive Public Colleges
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#27 Best Green Cities
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#41 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#124 2005 Best Places to Live
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Reviews for Thousand Oaks    32 Reviews

Over 12 years ago

All you have to do is to check out the climate of Thousand Oaks on this site or on City-Data to see that the climate here in Thousand Oaks is perfect, if you don't like  More

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I've lived here my entire life, which I suppose isn't that long only 17 years. Its been a nice place to grow up, lots of opportunities and places to go as a kid. Park  More

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I have lived here over 10 years. I'm not sure what some of the reviewers are talking about, as it pertains to "nothing to do for kids" here. We have a fantastic Parks  More

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Reviews for Santa Cruz    44 Reviews

I lived in the Santa Cruz area for 20 years. UCSC alum. Our kids were born there. There are wonderful things about Santa Cruz, but also many serious problems that we  More

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Over 4 years ago

I have been here for four generations! My kids are the fifth. I guess that should tell you how wonderful it is here, at least for us. It's so cool to have world class  More

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I was born over the hill in San Jose area, and as a kid I loved coming over to the boardwalk. Santa Cruz has always been and always will be a town of diversity,  More

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ZIPS IN THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA
91320 91360 91362 91361
ZIPS IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
95060 95064

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