2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Gainesville, GA vs Greenville, NC

#21 Emerging Metropolitan Areas

#353 Best Green Cities

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

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

#180 2005 Best Places to Live

#257 Best Green Cities

Don't know if it is the proximity to Atlanta that keeps prices high or the rural/frugal thinking that keeps housing opportunities at a minimum, but after living here for  More

I moved to Gainesville,Ga in 2010 from NYC and I have found it's a great place to raise your childrens and a good quality of life.It's a good place to live. Gainesville  More

This is a great place to live if you like the country feel and enjoy all 4 seasons. Nice people and lots to  More

Greenville is congested, dirty, drug and bug infested. Poverty levels rising because the elite in the city pool their resources to keep the housing prices extremely high  More

Love this place, it's changed so much over the past 5 to 10 years and is growing in such a great direction. I can't wait to see how it grows in the years to come. Cost  More

absolutely avoid this place. I was (also) tricked to work at ECU unless someone thinks I am dumb enough to willfully drive 953 miles away from a vested position for a  More