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Joplin, MO vs Kingston, PA

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

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

#150 Best Green Cities

#306 2005 Best Places to Live

#6 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#16 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#26 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#68 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#90 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#164 Best Green Cities

#271 2005 Best Places to Live

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

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

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

Kingston is a nice place to live but the weather is not to my liking. Too cold, and not enough  More