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Moline, IL vs Rochester, MN

#64 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#150 2005 Best Places to Live

#211 Best Green Cities

#9 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#10 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Mid-Size Cities)

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

#101 Best Green Cities

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

#144 2005 Best Places to Live

I spent the first 35 years of my life in the Illinois Quad Cities. Most of the time was spent in Moline. If you enjoy watersports, there are two rivers, and many  More

I'm a student in the Quad Cities and have been living at The Mills with two of my friends. It's a newer complex and we haven't had any issues. Just in case anyone is  More

I felt like I had to give a review after seeing some of the other posts about Moline. I moved here (from Chicago) a year ago, and I absolutely love it. I'll tell you  More

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More