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Columbia, MO vs Brandon, SD

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

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

#118 Best Green Cities

#189 2005 Best Places to Live

#2 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#6 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Mid-Size Cities)

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

#100 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#246 Best Green Cities

If you are an active person and love to be outdoors and go to college sporting events, Columbia is a great place to live! I run and bike and go to Mizzou events a lot. I  More

I've live in CoMo for 20 yrs. NOT sure about this state of the art water park??!! There are great parks but nothing else for families. NO zoo, museum, and definitely no  More

I lived there for a year and hated every minute. Columbia reminded me of the San Francisco of the Midwest. It is overrun with homeless people. Law enforcement is  More