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East Lansing, MI vs Poughkeepsie, NY

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- People living in Poughkeepsie are 21.3% more likely to have a religous affiliation, than people living in East Lansing
 East Lansing, MIPoughkeepsie, NYUnited States
 Percent Religious  Unlock53.8%49.4%
 Baptist0.4%  Unlock8.2%
 Episcopalian  Unlock1.7%0.6%
 Catholic18.6%  Unlock19.7%
 Church of Jesus Christ  Unlock0.3%2.1%
 Lutheran1.8%  Unlock2.4%
 Pentecostal  Unlock1.3%1.9%
 Methodist5.2%  Unlock4.0%
 Presbyterian  Unlock2.0%1.7%
 Other Christian3.9%  Unlock6.7%
 Judaism  Unlock0.8%0.7%
 Eastern0.0%  Unlock0.5%
 Islam  Unlock2.4%0.9%
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 18 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 Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 8 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 13 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 14 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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