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Bentonville, AR vs Springfield, MA

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

#19 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#27 2005 Best Places to Live

#78 Best Green Cities

#80 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#4 Best Green Cities

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

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

#12 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#17 The Most Single Cities

#20 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#30 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#33 2005 High Gas Prices

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

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

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

#71 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#89 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#251 2005 Best Places to Live

I've lived in Bentonville for 5 1/2 years and think it's a great city for families. There are tons of activities for kids and everything seems to be geared to young  More

Nice people but there is no consumer protection. Be careful renting or spending on high ticket items.  More

People are friendly when out and about for the most part. Lots of people from India and CA are moving here. Walmart owns and controls EVERYTHING from the police  More

Springfield is experiencing a rejeuvenation. Does the city have issues? Of course, what medium-sized city doesn't? During the past year, a new $1 billion MGM  More

This city has a bad rep that is unwarranted. I just bought a terrific little house in a quiet and friendly neighborhood. Everywhere I go in this town, people are  More

I just moved to Springfield almost a year now. I moved there because I know the housing stock there is plentiful. It's also very affordable. The most affordable place to  More