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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 St. George

St. George Ranked
#29 Emerging Metropolitan Areas
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St. George Ranked
#58 Best Green Cities
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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 St. George    75 Reviews

Very low paying jobs. Very few corporate companies you could have a career at. Very expensive housing. Very unaccepting of non mormons. A very lazy city hall that  More

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We recently moved here and this are our thoughts: - Landscape wise no doubts this is one of the most beautiful places we have been - Public spaces are very clean, well  More

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I have lived in St. George for 8 months and love it so far. I agree that there are not a lot of jobs and most have low pay so this may not be a good place if your  More

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