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Rankings for Joplin

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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Joplin Ranked
#150 Best Green Cities
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Joplin Ranked
#306 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Columbia

Columbia Ranked
#52 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Columbia Ranked
#103 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Columbia Ranked
#118 Best Green Cities
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Columbia Ranked
#189 2005 Best Places to Live
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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 Columbia    41 Reviews

If you are an active person and love to be outdoors and go to college sporting events, Columbia is a great place to live! I run and bike and go to Mizzou events a lot. I  More

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Over 4 years ago

I've live in CoMo for 20 yrs. NOT sure about this state of the art water park??!! There are great parks but nothing else for families. NO zoo, museum, and definitely no  More

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I lived there for a year and hated every minute. Columbia reminded me of the San Francisco of the Midwest. It is overrun with homeless people. Law enforcement is  More

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