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Victoria, TX vs Appleton, WI

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

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

#290 2005 Best Places to Live

#361 Best Green Cities

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

#14 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#77 Best Green Cities

#117 2005 Best Places to Live

I’ve been living here since 2016 after living in two metropolitan cities. Let’s start with good: Good is there is a variety of elementary schools for such a medium sized  More

These reviews are very old so here's an update. I had my pick in south Texas to live and found this small city. My wife and I love it. It's in the middle of major  More

Used to live in Victoria but raising a family there was terrible. We were secluded in our development but when the kids got out into public schools even at the low  More

Just to clarify my earlier review, the people are generally unfriendly, except the overweight women( 90% of women here) are friendly. Tailgatings on 1-41 an 441 is very  More

Women here are very heavy. People are rude here, will cut you off in public and not say a word. People at the gym walk in and do not even look at you, even though you  More

Something is happening in Appleton. The place used to be called the shopping capital of Wisco. But, slowly this rather commercial-sounding moniker is being replaced by  More