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Bloomington, IN vs Fort Smith, AR

#29 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#94 Best Green Cities

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

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

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

#322 2005 Best Places to Live

#355 Best Green Cities

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

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

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

I lived here for over a year and it SUCKS. The major grocery store is Walmart. And two other grocery stores and they are high price. One Sams Club , one target ,one  More

I have been here since 2005. The only good thing about Fort Smith is they have 2 Aldi locations. The cost of living might be cheaper but you also don't have renter's  More

Dis place lit no  More