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Dubuque Ranked
#17 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Dubuque Ranked
#112 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Dubuque Ranked
#162 Best Green Cities
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Dubuque Ranked
#311 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Carbondale


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Reviews for Dubuque    15 Reviews

I have been here for 3 years. I enjoy it here. I travel all over the country for work. Dubuque is the perfect size of city for me. I was born and raised in the Pacific  More

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Over 5 years ago

I've lived in Dubuque for over 25 years. Dubuque is not a very good place to live if you are open minded and want to experience new things. Dubuque is an old town with  More

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Over 7 years ago

Dubuque, IA is a great town to live   More

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Reviews for Carbondale    7 Reviews

I've lived in C'dale for over 30 years. I got an excellent education here - Giant City School was great, though fairly insular and not very diverse (among its drawbacks  More

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Over 17 years ago

I like Carbondale. It is relaxing and an easy way to go about getting a college degree. It has its ups and downs, mainly with the people in the town not recognizing the  More

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All of the comments are negative here and seem to me to be misleading. The idea that you have to have a lot of money in Carbondale is ridiculous. The price of cultural  More

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