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Waukesha, WI vs Arlington, VA

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#22 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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#26 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#26 2005 Best Places to Live

#26 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#29 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#31 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#34 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#36 Best Baseball Cities

#38 Hypertension Hot Spots

#39 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#40 Best Block Party Places

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#44 Stressful Cities 2012

#45 America’s Manliest Cities

#45 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#46 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

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I lived in waukesha for 37 years. It's home, it's where I grew up but it's a bit of a dump. They're trying hard to make it nice but its just not that great of a place to  More

I lived in Waukesha in 2006 while on a contract position for a precast design company. I found Waukesha to be a very enjoyable place to live. It is a very place to live  More

Waukesha is a small city, 65K population, with the amenities of a larger town. Its access to library, daily shopping, mainline restaurant fare and outside activity is  More

Lived here 17 years, amazing  More

Resident for 20 years. There is nothing hidden about Arlington. It is an affluent inner suburb of DC with a highly educated, mostly professional, population. The  More

We've lived in Arlington for the past 7 years, and have enjoyed it but would prefer a less expensive, more open area. We live in a townhouse in Rosslyn, close to the  More