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Wausau Ranked
#5 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Wausau Ranked
#94 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Wausau Ranked
#106 Best Green Cities
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Wausau Ranked
#208 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Dover

Dover Ranked
#25 2005 Best Places to Live
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Dover Ranked
#29 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Dover Ranked
#154 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Wausau    6 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

I visited Wausau during the summer and it was a very nice change from Phoenix. The people were friendly & helpful. It was a little humid than what I’m used to but  More

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Beautiful area geographically but beneath that beauty are some of the most overly conservative, unfriendly, judgemental people anywhere. Very hard to make friends here  More

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I LIVED IN WAUSAU WI OVER 23 YEARS AGO. I RELOCATED TO WYOMING IN 1990 FOR GOVERMENT POSITION. NOW RETIRED FROM FEDERAL SERVICE, I WILL BE MOVING BACK TO THE UPPER  More

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Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 7 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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