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Lancaster Ranked
#14 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#70 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#71 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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#119 Best Green Cities
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#186 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Nashua

Nashua Ranked
#6 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Nashua Ranked
#7 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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#10 Best Places for Military Retirees
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Nashua Ranked
#55 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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#78 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#151 2005 Best Places to Live
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#235 2005 Best Places to Live
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#238 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for Lancaster    14 Reviews

Lancaster is really nice in some parts, but it seems like the further away you get from downtown the worse it gets. I grew up around Saint Joseph and manor and saw  More

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I was there last weekend and was extremely favorably impressed. The only hesitation, and question, I have about the place is the high crime rate. It is hard to tell from  More

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Over 11 years ago

Lancaster is the nation's oldest inland city located in central PA amid Amish farmlands. Walkable and soon to be bike friendly, it offers a variety of great restaurants  More

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Reviews for Nashua    13 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

Twenty or so years ago, this was a pretty nice city. Convenient and safe. Now, at least over the past decade-to-decade and a half, it's changed for the worse. Mainly the  More

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Did a short term stay here for work, it was the most depressing place I could ever imagine. Boring, unfriendly people, freezing winter, crap restaurants, and horrible  More

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Over 10 years ago

I have lived in many places across southern NH - and Nashua is by far the most community oriented place I have lived. The Library, Main Street initiatives, and parks  More

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