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#29 Best Baseball Cities

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#32 Failure To Lunch

#33 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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#41 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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#58 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#59 2005 High Gas Prices

#66 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#69 2005 Best Places to Live

#81 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#84 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced 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

Opened a small tourism business here 17 years ago! It has grown every year to a multi-layered business we never imagined We are Still open and thriving and will  More

What a pit. I live in Port St. Lucie and came to Florida City for a temporary job this fall. The place has a red-light camera set up at Krome and Palm Drive that the  More

my neighborhood is good it is clean and we keep it that  More