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Iowa City, IA vs Jonesboro, AR

#19 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#29 Best Green Cities

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

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

#191 2005 Best Places to Live

#2 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)

#2 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

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

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

#257 2005 Best Places to Live

#270 Best Green Cities

I was there 5 years. Nothing to do but we’ll go shopping... at Walmart. It lacks so many things. There is no experience here, it jumps on any political band wagon and  More

Entertainment lacks greatly - especially the Hancher shows. I was hoping after they rebuilt they would be getting better shows there, that didn't happen. One has to  More

Iowa City is great. It's diverse and never boring. There always a variety of new shops and restaurants to explore and try out. Also watching college kids do stupid  More

I have lived in Jonesboro for 25 years and have enjoyed seeing the economic growth of this community. My children are able to attend a great public school and my wife  More

Yikes, this is one of those places that used to have sundown town policies in place well into the 20th century. Welcome to the conservative, baptist South.  More

Ashamed of Jonesboro! I was born and raised there back in the late 70's and 80's We never heard of killings, not much of drugs, we were able to play outside, Nettleton  More