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Grand Rapids, MI vs Amherst, NY

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#21 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#23 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

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#28 2005 High Gas Prices

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#32 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#32 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#34 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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#39 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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#46 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

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#53 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#71 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#86 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#86 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#181 Best Green Cities

#205 2005 Best Places to Live

I've lived in Grand Rapids about 85% of my life and can confidently say it is a great place to live for anyone. I know countless people who dogged the city, moved  More

Grand Rapids proper - the small city - is fairly OK. Nothing special stands out about it when judged against the nicer areas of the US, but it has some decent dining and  More

Wow. “bland Rapids and everyone is Smug, uptight and part of the Christian Reformed Church. “ Someone is accurately describing Grand Rapids in 1985. Much has changed  More

Safe and friendly town. You are 20 minutes away from anywhere in  More

Amherst is a safe suburban area where you can live without having to worry about the crime that may occur in Buffalo and in parts of any city in the United  More

Really glad I found this site as, I haven't found it easy to find honest data on crime rate in our cities. Thanx for the service, Ada  More