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Columbia, MO vs King, NC

#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

#64 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#138 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

King North Carolina is a great place to raise a family, it has become the go to city, as Greensboro, winston salem and high point continue to decline. Greensboro,  More

It's a great place to be if you want to be led. No such thing as co-exist here. Check out the city leadership decisions and their non con-existing ideals.  More