| | Decatur, IL | Boise City, ID | United States |
| Overall | 72.9 | 119.6 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 91.0 | 93.8 | 100 |
| Health | 111.0 | 100.3 | 100 |
| Housing | 23.2 | 170.3 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $83,400 | $478,900 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,890.0% | 9,000.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 70.0 | 84.5 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 120.5 | 95.0 | 100 |
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I was sent here by the company I worked for in the '90's and was not initially impressed with midwest living. However, over the years I got used to living in the "Pride More
I grew up in Decatur and I still have family there, but it depresses me to see what it has become. It has a high unemployment rate, many business have closed or are run More
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Reviews for Boise City 
131 Reviews
The people that made Boise the really appealing small-town America kind of place it was 30-40 years ago are gone. I moved here about 30 years ago. I'm not immediately More
My wife and I moved here in 2018 with pans to eventually buy a house and start a family. We bought a house at the end of 2019, if we hadn't there's no way we could More
Boise is often characterized as a right-leaning city, as Sperling mistakenly did in their synopsis of Boise.
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