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Bloomington Ranked
#29 2005 Best Places to Live
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Bloomington Ranked
#42 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Bloomington Ranked
#94 Best Green Cities
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Bloomington Ranked
#98 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Bloomington Ranked
#111 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Rankings for Alma

Alma Ranked
#69 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Alma Ranked
#322 2005 Best Places to Live
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Alma Ranked
#355 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Bloomington    25 Reviews

I have lived here for almost 23 years. Wonderful, cosmopolitan, safe, cultural, liberal, all-inclusive town, with plenty of arts, shopping, sports events and activities,  More

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Over 5 years ago

The city government of Bloomington is very famous for its corruption. The police of this city are famous for their inactivity and lack of professionalism. The judges  More

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Over 6 years ago

Terrible. There is nothing good about Bloomington, IN. Don’t live there. As for Catalent, there is one of those in my home town Woodstock, IL. It’s a pharmaceutical  More

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Reviews for Alma    3 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

I have multiple friends and fraternity brothers who are from Alma and the area around it, that does not include Fort Smith. I am amazed at how well kept these people and  More

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Over 9 years ago

Alma has some of the best schools around. I have never seen a school district care so much for it's students. Not to mention the sports, dance, cheer and drama teams are  More

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Over 13 years ago

The most common response to querys about denominational identity is Baptist. There are basically three expressions of Baptist faith in the area. They are: Southern,  More

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