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Grand Rapids, MI vs Mechanicville, NY

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#19 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

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

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#29 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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#36 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

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

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

#41 Best Block Party Places

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#45 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#53 2005 High Gas Prices

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

#79 The Most Single Cities

#83 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#95 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#157 2005 Best Places to Live

#200 Best Green Cities

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

#7 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#10 2005 High Gas Prices

#11 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#12 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#17 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#19 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#25 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#33 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#35 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#43 Best Green Cities

#49 The Most Single Cities

#49 Stressful Cities 2012

#55 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#59 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#89 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#91 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#240 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

It's the kind of place where people don't bother to lock their doors. I've lived here almost 20 years and the worst crime related problems I've had is an occasional  More

I'm 12, and I can tell you, there is nothing fun to do in Mechanicville. The recent addition of a candy store is drawing kids' attention  More

I have grown up in Mcville as we refer to it as and we used to have game rooms, 4-H, trails to hike and pool halls!! What happen to our city, The teenagers hang out at  More