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Chico, CA vs Springfield, IL

#20 Best Green Cities

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

#281 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#133 Best Green Cities

#196 2005 Best Places to Live

Chico is imperfect like most places, but it's still good. Any and all of it's issues proceed from it's main fault of growing increasingly liberal, which is to be  More

Chico's decent. I've been living here for ~5 years now. Eveen though my brother loves Chico and would like to stay, I would like to leave. I have no issues with crime or  More

I was born in Oroville and I grew up in Oroville and Biggs. I have heard all my life about crime in chico. Well I have lived in Chico near Chapman for almost 10 years  More

I've lived here for over 40 years. Springfield is a decent place to raise a family. Solid midwestern values, and I've always felt safe. Opportunities exist, but there  More

I moved (back) to Springfield after living in various cities and towns around the country - as large as Milwaukee, as small as Baker, NV - and can say without  More

whole town smells like dirty ***** and  More