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Fitchburg, MA vs Battle Creek, MI

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

#14 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#23 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#33 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#70 The Most Single Cities

#72 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#87 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#197 Best Green Cities

#286 2005 Best Places to Live

#292 2005 Best Places to Live

#81 Best Green Cities

I've had the privilege to live in many places across the US in several states. Fitchburg is easily the worst place I have lived, by far. To find it, drive west on the  More

First off, Fitchburg is not a bad place to live. If you want an urban feel with a country setting this is a great place. If you don't like new england winters, bad  More

First off, Fitchburg is not a bad place to live. If you want an urban feel with a country setting this is a great place. If you don't like new england winters, bad  More

you need to really pay attention to the neighborhood you select. There are some great older neighborhoods with fantastic houses in the city, but those might only be one  More

Battle Creek is moderately ok in the summer months but any other time it is cold or cloudy and unpleasant. You better have warm clothes to survive the cold winter that  More

Battle Creek is a great place to raise a family. Sometimes hard to get people to move here but once here nobody wants to leave. Summers are absolutely beautiful. Yes  More