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Lenox, MA vs Santa Barbara, CA

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

#14 Best Green Cities

#14 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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

#243 2005 Best Places to Live

Lenox, MA sounlds like a great place to live: low crime, beautiful scenery and affordable rents! I plan to move there as soon as I  More

Lenox sounds like a great place to live: low crime, beautiful scenery and affordable rents! I plan on moving there as soon as I  More

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  More