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Fort Wayne, IN vs Lewiston, ME

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

#40 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#102 2005 Best Places to Live

#295 Best Green Cities

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

#43 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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

#97 Best Green Cities

#313 2005 Best Places to Live

Fort Wayne is what America used to be. Hardworking, unpretentious, welcoming. There are problems, like anywhere, including crime on the east side, but nothing like  More

Moved here from Buffalo, NY. Ft Wayne is a big city with lots of greenery and things to do. It is not congested and cost of living is cheap. One complain-drivers with  More

I lived in Fort Wayne from 1962 until 1988 then moved north. Fort Wayne was a nice city at one time. It's sad to say, but today, it's become to highly populated with  More

Sadley, there's little hope if this town can rise up to overcome the extreme poverty of this socio-economical class in an underserved community, unless... PARENTS do  More

I have lived and worked in Lewiston-Auburn for nearly 30 years and I think it's a wonderful place to raise a family. We sent both our kids to the Lewiston public  More

Despite years of efforts to revitalize Maine's second largest city, it seems Lewiston will always be joked about as the "armpit" of the State. City and State leaders  More