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Columbus Ranked
#78 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Columbus Ranked
#110 2005 Best Places to Live
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Columbus Ranked
#152 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Meridian

Meridian Ranked
#11 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.
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Meridian Ranked
#21 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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Meridian Ranked
#41 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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Meridian Ranked
#46 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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Meridian Ranked
#47 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Meridian Ranked
#53 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
When it comes to summer and its accompanying hot weather, there are so many beautiful things - beach days, barbecues, revea... Read More

Meridian Ranked
#68 2005 Best Places to Live
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Meridian Ranked
#168 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Columbus    9 Reviews

I have lived here for 6.5 years. In-town is cute with nice restaurants and sometimes music. It hasn’t realized it’s full potential though. Houses are still reasonably  More

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no,nonono NEVER MOVE HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. as someone who is almost out of highschool and i can finally go to my homecountry after 10 years of begging to move, never  More

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This once beautiful and safe town is now crime ridden and trashy courtesy of Theresa Tomlinson’s 2 terms as mayor. Even if you live in the north end you are no longer  More

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Reviews for Meridian    18 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

New to the area and so far we think it's a great place to live compared to Denver, where we moved from. Quality of life is so much better here! A lot less traffic than  More

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I have been here since 2013 and have watched child after child be diagnosed with Cancer. Many of the children have been diagnosed with "rare" Cancers. It has been  More

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Over 7 years ago

It has changed a lot over the years... Crime rates are still low and people are overall still nice HOWEVER way too many people are moving to my wonderful town! All the  More

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