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Bloomington, IN vs Towson, MD

#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)

#1 Failure To Lunch

#2 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#3 Most Energetic Cities

#4 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#4 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#5 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

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

#7 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#8 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#12 America's Most Playful Cities

#12 Best Block Party Places

#12 2005 High Gas Prices

#15 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#15 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#16 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

#17 America’s Least Manly Cities

#19 Healthiest Cities

#19 Gloomiest Places in America

#20 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#22 Hypertension Hot Spots

#22 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#25 Best Baseball Cities

#25 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#26 The Most Single Cities

#27 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#27 America's Top Hygge Cities

#28 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#29 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#30 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#32 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#34 Stressful Cities 2012

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

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

#36 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#37 America’s Manliest Cities

#37 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#38 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#39 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#40 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#42 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

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

#48 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#65 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#126 Best Green Cities

#179 2005 Best Places to Live

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

Because Towson university is right here, and we're not too far from downtown Baltimore, there are many bus lines running in the area. The problem though is they rarely  More

Crowded, crime on the rise , very expensive and tax  More

My wife and I have lived in Towson for seven and a half years. It has many of the things we want in a community but it is not our dream place to live. We would like a  More