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Hattiesburg Ranked
#53 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Hattiesburg Ranked
#66 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Hattiesburg Ranked
#300 2005 Best Places to Live
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Hattiesburg Ranked
#329 Best Green Cities
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Rankings for East Lansing

East Lansing Ranked
#28 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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East Lansing Ranked
#33 Best Green Cities
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East Lansing Ranked
#33 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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East Lansing Ranked
#162 2005 Best Places to Live
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Reviews for Hattiesburg    10 Reviews

Over 9 years ago

Hattiesburg is generally a pleasant city to live in and raise a family, and is a convenient for several weekend destinations, but I'm seriously contemplating a move.  More

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Hattiesburg experiences virtually all of the extremes in weather. The summers are hot and humid. Fall is still pretty nasty, except for the latter part of September.  More

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I grew up in Hattiesburg but have lived in many US & Int'l cities. There is an oddity about Hattiesburg. Many of the average citizens behave cliquishly, live beyond  More

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Reviews for East Lansing    4 Reviews

East Lansing is a wonderful, lively, youthful college town that has gotten better over time. You feel the strong Spartan Spirit everywhere as students, alumni and locals  More

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East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land  More

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Over 17 years ago

East Lansing is a very pretty town. The town has had frequent problems with student rioters. Overall 60% of the town is composed of students. I would recommend East  More

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