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Rankings for Missoula

Missoula Ranked
#24 Best Green Cities
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Missoula Ranked
#76 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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Missoula Ranked
#79 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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Missoula Ranked
#96 2005 Best Places to Live
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Rankings for Asheville

Asheville Ranked
#8 2005 Best Places to Live
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Asheville Ranked
#25 Best Green Cities
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Asheville Ranked
#32 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)
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Reviews for Missoula    48 Reviews

I've lived here for 10 years and my view of the city has turned as we (barely) managed to buy a home, started a family, and the blight of homelessness has escalated out  More

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Over 5 years ago

I lived here for 6 years, and it never got any easier to live, I'm a Native American, these people her look down on us, I have been put in jail for sitting in a parking  More

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I have lived in Missoula on and off for the last 30 years, but consistently for the last 12. I met my wife and had my kids here. My father and my wife's entire family  More

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Reviews for Asheville    117 Reviews

Lived around this city my entire life, and have spent countless hours in every part of it- at one point, Asheville was the place to be, it had a high standard of living,  More

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Scotty · 

Asheville has changed dramatically over the pass twenty years . At one time downtown and the charming family friendly neighborhoods within, reminded me of The Waltons  More

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This city is very deceiving. Small but if you look close you see big liberal city problems in this town. Mainly because it is overwhelming liberal. Far left liberals.  More

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