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Albany, NY vs Edwardsville, IL

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

#7 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#10 2005 High Gas Prices

#11 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#12 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

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

#17 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#19 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#25 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#35 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#43 Best Green Cities

#49 The Most Single Cities

#49 Stressful Cities 2012

#55 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#59 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#89 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#91 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#240 2005 Best Places to Live

#2 Best Baseball Cities

#4 Best Block Party Places

#5 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#6 America’s Manliest Cities

#8 Hypertension Hot Spots

#9 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#10 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#10 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#11 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#11 Most Congested Cities

#12 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

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

#14 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#14 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#16 Failure To Lunch

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

#17 Stressful Cities 2012

#19 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#19 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#19 Sleepless Cities 2011

#20 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#21 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#22 Gloomiest Places in America

#22 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#23 America's Top Hygge Cities

#23 2005 High Gas Prices

#24 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#26 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#28 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#30 America's Most Playful Cities

#32 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#33 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#34 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#34 Healthiest Cities

#36 America’s Least Manly Cities

#40 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#41 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#41 Sleep in the City Study

#41 Most Energetic Cities

#44 The Most Single Cities

#46 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#63 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#97 2005 Best Places to Live

#318 Best Green Cities

I live relatively close to Albany, and I gotta say, its a great city. I think it has a lot of good places for food, good living spaces, nice jobs and offices, and I  More

I’ve lived just outside of Albany in Clifton Park and its always been decent for me. The town is nice and theres a lot to do. The prices are a little expensive including  More

Good place to retire. Walkable. Young people. Buses. Sidewalks. Feel safe here in Whitehall neighborhood. Plenty to do. Taxes in ny are high,but you get what you pay  More

Edwardsville is a great town that is growing rapidly. The school district is one of the best in the area, it is the home of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,  More

Lovely little town with over 75 miles of gorgeous, well maintained, wooded bike trails. Recreational biker's dream  More