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Jamestown, NY vs Vestal, NY

#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

#5 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Mid-Size Cities)

#8 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#9 Best Green Cities

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

#34 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#241 2005 Best Places to Live

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

Vestal is the beautiful, elitist older sibling of West Binghamton (not the first ward, the actual west Bing, near Riverside area). The area is expensive compared to  More

Very nice area. I live in West Binghamton and Vestal is more like this area, but a bit more pricey.  More

Vestal is very safe and  More