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Fayetteville, NC vs Lancaster, PA

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

#217 Best Green Cities

#250 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#70 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#71 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#119 Best Green Cities

#186 2005 Best Places to Live

I have lived in Fayetteville for 21 years and I LOVE IT! Fayetteville is a military town and that is what brought my husband and I here originally. Since January 2000  More

I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

Lancaster is really nice in some parts, but it seems like the further away you get from downtown the worse it gets. I grew up around Saint Joseph and manor and saw  More

I was there last weekend and was extremely favorably impressed. The only hesitation, and question, I have about the place is the high crime rate. It is hard to tell from  More

Lancaster is the nation's oldest inland city located in central PA amid Amish farmlands. Walkable and soon to be bike friendly, it offers a variety of great restaurants  More