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Iowa City, IA vs Springfield, OR

#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

#18 Best Green Cities

#21 2005 Best Places to Live

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

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

#81 2005 High Gas Prices

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

When I moved to Springfield with my family, we came from the north so didn't we didn't experience the scathing hatred Californians might encounter. Even so, not being a  More

I lived her from Sept 2012 to Dec 2018. It was ok at first. Over the years the whole area has become.more and more unfriendly to moderate democrats, centrist or  More

How is it in Springfield ? Is it hard to get started in that town? How is the work  More