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Rankings for Flint

Flint Ranked
#72 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Flint Ranked
#234 2005 Best Places to Live
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Flint Ranked
#369 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for Decatur

Decatur Ranked
#22 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Decatur Ranked
#59 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Decatur Ranked
#104 2005 Best Places to Live
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Decatur Ranked
#301 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Flint    27 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Denzel Washington says if you don't listen to the news, you are uninformed, if you listen to the news you are misinformed. There is a lot of bad press about Flint, and  More

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Why anyone would want to live in Flint is a mystery to me. I suspect the main reason for the below average cost of living is the water problem. Because of this housing  More

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Flint has a lot of pros and cons The pros; The University of Michigan has it's medical campus, law, economic, science and historical campus here. Ann arbor has the  More

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Reviews for Decatur    14 Reviews

I was sent here by the company I worked for in the '90's and was not initially impressed with midwest living. However, over the years I got used to living in the "Pride  More

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I grew up in Decatur and I still have family there, but it depresses me to see what it has become. It has a high unemployment rate, many business have closed or are run  More

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Over 14 years ago

If you enjoy drinking & driving, Decatur's fifteen drive-thru liquor windows, three times the # of drive-thru's than the ten largest cities in Illinois, COMBINED, will  More

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