| Joplin, MO | Yelm, WA | United States |
Overall | 77.3 | 112.1 | 100 |
Food & Groceries | 94.7 | 100.0 | 100 |
Health | 104.5 | 87.1 | 100 |
Housing | 44.0 | 139.5 | 100 |
Median Home Cost | $166,600 | $443,200 | $338,100 |
Utilities | 10,320.0% | 6,990.0% | 10,000.0% |
Transportation | 73.4 | 112.4 | 100 |
Miscellaneous | 69.4 | 143.4 | 100 |
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The Joplin community is rapidly becoming an affordable, livable version of the urban lifestyle that offers More
Joplin is inexpensive to live in however humidity is through the roof if you have a roof due to the threat of tornados here. Winters are mild but usually instead of More
Winter lasts about 4 months and is fairly cold. Mostly cloudy and dreary with very little if any snow. Spring lasts about 6 weeks and has plenty of rain. Summer lasts More
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Yelm is a very nice city to live in. Small enough to have that small town flavor but big enough not to be cramped. Has access to pretty much everywhere you want to go. More
I've lived in Yelm 2 years now and LOVE IT! We moved here to get away of the crazyness and extreamly crampedness of the "suburbia"of Puyallup which is just outside of More
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