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Jamestown, NY vs Augusta, ME

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

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

#137 2005 Best Places to Live

#49 Most Competitive Private Colleges

I have lived all over this country and can say that Jamestown is a lovely old city. It has some problems common to small, rural cities in the northeast - lack of job  More

We have been out West several times and find that we like the wide open spaces. Here in New York the foothills are to close and not enough open  More

We spent 1 year in Augusta. It is probably the cutest Capitol city that I have ever visited in the US. That being said, it has a dark underbelly and a ruthless drug  More

Winter in Maine usually starts in November, occasionally in October and lasts until March, sometimes April. Although last year was unusually mild, most folks around  More

I've been living in Augusta for about 9 months now. Moved here from New Orleans. I should be moving out in a few months; I seriously considered staying in Augusta  More