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Champaign, IL vs Blacksburg, VA

#10 Best Green Cities

#33 2005 Best Places to Live

#44 Most Competitive Public Colleges

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

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

#8 Emerging Metropolitan Areas

#19 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)

#63 Best Green Cities

Pros - close to Chicago, has Parkland community college and lots of places to eat. There is a train station downtown that is really good. Beautiful deciduous trees and  More

I wonderful city with great  More

Actually it's barely a nice place to live. The pros: Not terribly expensive - at one point the least expensive place to live in the country among modest sized  More

Growing up I thought my city was the best thing since sliced bread. However, since moving to Blacksburg I have changed my tune. Amazing community and  More

Blacksburg is a very nice place overall, but like others has its pros and cons. It's a small, clean, quaint college town amid rural farmland and forested mountains. The  More

4 great seasons without  More