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Marquette, MI vs Jamestown, NY

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

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

#137 2005 Best Places to Live

I've lived in Michigan most of my life, but traveled extensively throughout the US, so I can compare Marquette to many other cities. I still long to come back no matter  More

A nice small affordable college town with a fairly accepting, laid back & liberal vibe, and a town with absolutely gorgeous natural surroundings. A town for Americans  More

I am not a native from here , so I am not biased. If you dream of having a big house for less then 400k this is your place. Very religious not in a bad way , but  More

I have lived all over this country and can say that Jamestown is a lovely old city. It has some problems common to small, rural cities in the northeast - lack of job  More

We have been out West several times and find that we like the wide open spaces. Here in New York the foothills are to close and not enough open  More