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Athens-Clarke County, GA vs Shreveport, LA

#34 2005 Best Places to Live

#50 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#89 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#94 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#112 Best Green Cities

#6 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)

#6 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

#60 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#242 2005 Best Places to Live

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Athens is really a jewel hidden in & of itself. This place had so much stuff; it's constantly changing. They have city transit. They're expanding the highway and  More

I absolutely love Athens, Ga. I grew up traveling the world, the first place that I have ever lived in for more than 5 years in a row was Athens, Ga. I cam here in 96  More

The "Old South" is alive and well, thing about Baptists is they look like real people. Also come late Spring several religious groups feel they have the right to knock  More

The pace of its death is picking up. A place that should be moving forward is following the path of Rust belt cities that died. Downtown has potential, but the  More

I Love Driving By Shreveport, Buildings do look beautiful, it is truly a great city, my favorite thing is the people. What loses the last star is that I did not visit  More

Shreveport is dying a slow painful death. If you are thinking of relocating here; I would not advise it. Since moving back twenty years ago, I have watch the town  More