| | Boise City, ID | Salt Lake City, UT | United States |
| Overall | 119.6 | 121.3 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 93.8 | 95.8 | 100 |
| Health | 100.3 | 101.3 | 100 |
| Housing | 170.3 | 179.4 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $478,900 | $500,800 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,000.0% | 9,410.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 84.5 | 93.4 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 95.0 | 109.9 | 100 |
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Reviews for Boise City 
131 Reviews
The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately More
My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could More
Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise.
But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep, More
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Salt Lake City feels like home. There are so many things to do and see. There are many families and one thing to look out for is, there are many cranes and high rises More
I've lived in Salt Lake City almost for six years. Each place can have negative aspects like traffic jams, cost of living, crime and climate etc. However, this city has More
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