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Virginia Beach, VA vs Deer Park, TX

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

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#30 Failure To Lunch

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#48 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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#74 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#82 The Most Single Cities

#95 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#96 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#99 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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If you lived here prior to 2005, your experience in Virginia Beach is likely between good and wonderful. There are still pros to living here. Other reviews have  More

I lived in the Hampton Roads area for 11 years while I was in the Navy. It was a bit of a culture shock, since I grew up in a small rural town in Maine with 900 people.  More

I lived in the Kempsville area of VB growing up and loved it. There's no way to be bored when you have so many public and neighborhood parks, libraries, events,  More

This school is in a good neighborhood,which is the only good thing I can say about this school. The teachers did not help my son when he needed it. I asked for  More

Having lived in the Houston, Texas area for forty-five years, I was delighted to discover such a small town environment in Deer Park, Texas. When I first moved here a  More

Like that area on the Gulf coast you can cut the humidity with a knife, the refineries on the Houston ship channel are nearby and they STINK, especially with a north  More