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East Lansing, MI vs Kalamazoo, MI

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Rankings for East Lansing

East Lansing Ranked
#28 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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East Lansing Ranked
#33 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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East Lansing Ranked
#33 Best Green Cities
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East Lansing Ranked
#162 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Ranked
#14 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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Kalamazoo Ranked
#83 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Kalamazoo Ranked
#89 Best Green Cities
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Kalamazoo Ranked
#237 2005 Best Places to Live
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Reviews for East Lansing    4 Reviews

East Lansing is a wonderful, lively, youthful college town that has gotten better over time. You feel the strong Spartan Spirit everywhere as students, alumni and locals  More

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East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land  More

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Over 17 years ago

East Lansing is a very pretty town. The town has had frequent problems with student rioters. Overall 60% of the town is composed of students. I would recommend East  More

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Reviews for Kalamazoo    31 Reviews

I have lived in Kalamazoo for over 17 years. Originally from Grand Rapids, and lived in the Zeeland / Holland are for quite a while. In comparison I absolutely hate  More

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I moved to Kalamazoo 20 years ago from Chicago. Coming from a large city, this is a nice change once you get use to the small things like lack of ethnic culture, any  More

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Over 9 years ago

Hi, My husband and I are considering relocating to the Kalamazoo area for his job and I'm just starting to do some research. We have elementary-aged children so good  More

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