2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Columbia, SC vs Mechanicville, NY

#5 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#5 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#10 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#13 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#13 America’s Manliest Cities

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

#17 Most Congested Cities

#20 Hypertension Hot Spots

#22 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#25 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#26 2005 High Gas Prices

#26 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#27 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#49 America’s Least Manly Cities

#50 2005 Best Places to Live

#59 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#62 The Most Single Cities

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

#89 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#221 Best Green Cities

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

#7 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#10 2005 High Gas Prices

#11 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

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

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

#19 2005 Best Places to Live

#22 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#25 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#35 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#43 Best Green Cities

#49 The Most Single Cities

#49 Stressful Cities 2012

#55 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#59 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#89 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#91 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#240 2005 Best Places to Live

I love living in Columbia! I recently graduated from USC and plan to stay. I read the reviews posted here and it shows that like many cities, your experience will depend  More

Loved living in Columbia, SC prior to my job transfer. It's the perfect size - plenty to do, but still a laid back place. People are extremely friendly, there are  More

Columbia is such a unique and underrated place. It has a lot of character and history, and good nature trails. Everything feels accessible (by car) and you can get from  More

It's the kind of place where people don't bother to lock their doors. I've lived here almost 20 years and the worst crime related problems I've had is an occasional  More

I'm 12, and I can tell you, there is nothing fun to do in Mechanicville. The recent addition of a candy store is drawing kids' attention  More

I have grown up in Mcville as we refer to it as and we used to have game rooms, 4-H, trails to hike and pool halls!! What happen to our city, The teenagers hang out at  More