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Waynesville, NC vs Orlando, FL

#8 2005 Best Places to Live

#25 Best Green Cities

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

#2 Failure To Lunch

#5 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

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

#6 2005 High Gas Prices

#6 Stressful Cities 2012

#7 Sleepless Cities 2011

#8 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#9 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#10 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#11 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#14 America’s Manliest Cities

#15 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#15 America’s Least Manly Cities

#15 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#15 Best Cities for Board Gamers

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

#18 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#19 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#20 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#21 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#22 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

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

#27 Best Block Party Places

#29 Hypertension Hot Spots

#30 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#30 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#31 Most Energetic Cities

#32 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#34 America's Most Playful Cities

#34 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#35 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#36 The Most Single Cities

#37 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#38 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#38 America's Top Hygge Cities

#40 Gloomiest Places in America

#44 Best Baseball Cities

#46 Healthiest Cities

#49 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#76 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#96 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#97 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#134 2005 Best Places to Live

#143 Best Green Cities

The post below was written a little less than 10 years ago and only a few months prior to my move to Waynesville. Anyone who moves to any city should do research before  More

Waynesville is a small town trying to keep up with the big dogs across the mountains. It puts on shows and have festivals downtown but it is not good enough. I have  More

For those of us who weren't reared there, Waynesville, NC lends itself best to being a small-town retirement community. The "Gateway to the Smokies" is a blissfully  More

I made the decision to move to Orlando when I was 20. My father was a contractor so by then I'd lived in many different states & countries so I have a unique  More

I have lived and worked in the Orlando area for more than 10 years. I really wish I could give Orlando two ratings because half the year it is wonderful and other half  More

I have lived in Orlando for 6 years. The environment, living costs, and housing costs are good. There are many fun places around Orlando. It's a good place to live in  More