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Davenport, IA vs Gonzales, LA

#64 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#150 2005 Best Places to Live

#211 Best Green Cities

#16 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

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

#43 The Most Single Cities

#59 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#74 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#78 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#95 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#295 2005 Best Places to Live

#338 Best Green Cities

Davenport is part of a larger metropolitan area, called the Quad Cities, which includes Illinois river cities just across the Mississippi. River related recreation,,  More

Lived in 12 SE cities before moving to Davenport. Quality of life is much better; ease of moving around with little to no interstate traffic. Grid layout makes it simple  More

Great local colleges and  More

Quality of Life is like a mantra here, unfortunately more of a political one. The area is growing at an astounding rate but mostly in my opinion due to location. Right  More

Gonzales (and surrounding area) is a fair town to live in. Not much to brag about, little or no excitement except youth sports, but then there is very little crime here  More

A very family oriented place with little to no cultural activities outside of regional ones. Be prepared to feel like a 'stranger in a strange land'  More