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Boothbay Harbor, ME vs North Syracuse, NY

#3 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#4 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#13 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#39 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#44 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#57 Best Green Cities

#59 The Most Single Cities

#61 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#73 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#73 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#246 2005 Best Places to Live

We purchased a 2nd home in BBH 3 years ago. We have seen the improvements over the years with the expansion of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and the rotary in  More

Quiet neighborhood north of Syracuse. 10 minute drive to downtown. Plenty of snow in winter. Warm but not too hot in  More

Upstate NY and the Syracuse suburbs do have very good schools systems relative to other areas of the country. Liverpool, North Syracuse, Baldwinsville, Westhill, West  More