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Joplin Ranked
#28 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Joplin Ranked
#74 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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#150 Best Green Cities
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#306 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Champaign

Champaign Ranked
#10 Best Green Cities
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#33 2005 Best Places to Live
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Champaign Ranked
#44 Most Competitive Public Colleges
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Champaign Ranked
#58 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Champaign Ranked
#109 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Reviews for Joplin    22 Reviews

Wow, this content is dated. Here's an update on Joplin: The Joplin community is rapidly becoming an affordable, livable version of the urban lifestyle that offers  More

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Over 10 years ago

Joplin is inexpensive to live in however humidity is through the roof if you have a roof due to the threat of tornados here. Winters are mild but usually instead of  More

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Over 12 years ago

Winter lasts about 4 months and is fairly cold. Mostly cloudy and dreary with very little if any snow. Spring lasts about 6 weeks and has plenty of rain. Summer lasts  More

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Reviews for Champaign    13 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

Pros - close to Chicago, has Parkland community college and lots of places to eat. There is a train station downtown that is really good. Beautiful deciduous trees and  More

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Over 8 years ago

I wonderful city with great  More

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Actually it's barely a nice place to live. The pros: Not terribly expensive - at one point the least expensive place to live in the country among modest sized  More

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