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Groton, CT vs Carrboro, NC

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

#17 Best Green Cities

#67 2005 Best Places to Live

#93 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#8 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#16 Best Green Cities

#18 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#68 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

Carrboro is basically a bedroom community, where people who work at or study at UNC over in Chapel Hill lay down for the night. All day they work at UNC only to pay the  More

Carrboro has a strong civic life with a lot of local participation and visionary politics towards making a more sustainable and just community. The center of town has  More

climate is good, 4 seasons, winter is short with just a little  More