| | Council Bluffs, IA | Troy, MI | United States |
| Overall | 82.8 | 104.9 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 95.4 | 100.9 | 100 |
| Health | 106.6 | 79.9 | 100 |
| Housing | 54.0 | 125.2 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $190,300 | $376,800 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,090.0% | 9,800.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 82.4 | 118.2 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 98.8 | 125.3 | 100 |
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Reviews for Council Bluffs 
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It's an okay city. Nothing special really. All the fun things to do and good restaurants are across the river in Omaha. I will say CB has some pretty good recreational More
Quietly over the years this community has taken untold amounts of riverfront casino tax dollars and converted them into hundreds and hundreds of community improvement More
here in council bluffs iowa, we have low crime rate. There have been an increase in shopping areas in the last 2 years and lots of new resturants and three casinos. It More
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, corruption is like More
no one ever visited Troy, that writes this stuff,, Troy has a Black out, of any city corruption, most of the elected city are from the same zip code. and the heavy More
This is the safest place to live in Michigan. The schools are ranked in the top of both the state and in the US. When our kids graduated 98% of the graduates went on More
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