| | Boise City, ID | Lansing, MI | United States |
| Overall | 119.6 | 83.6 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 93.8 | 91.1 | 100 |
| Health | 100.3 | 87.9 | 100 |
| Housing | 170.3 | 43.0 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $478,900 | $127,100 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,000.0% | 9,760.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 84.5 | 94.8 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 95.0 | 108.1 | 100 |
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Reviews for Boise City 
131 Reviews
The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately More
My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could More
Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise.
But, the truth is the city its not just blue; it is deep, More
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I am in my fifth house in the greater Lansing area since relocating here in 1997 from the tri-city area (Midland/Bay City/Saginaw). Pros: people are friendlier here- More
I first moved to Lansing in the early 2000s for grad school @ MSU, went away and returned after several years. I must say, the area has improved VERY significantly More
This is a really nice place to live and people here are friendly there is a lot to do and a wide variety of different people and belief systems if you know where to look More
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