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Odessa, TX vs Springfield, MA

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

#283 2005 Best Places to Live

#358 Best Green Cities

#4 Best Green Cities

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#9 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#12 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#17 The Most Single Cities

#20 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#30 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#33 2005 High Gas Prices

#47 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#63 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#63 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#71 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#89 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#251 2005 Best Places to Live

You need to be a friendly person who likes people, isn't afraid to work hard, and have a strength of character that can handle challenges to make it here. Odessa sits on  More

I think Odessa is a perfect little west Texas town. There is pride in our homes, pride in our community and pride in our kids. No, it's not a fancy place, but you won't  More

Listen to me!!! Do not move to this place!! I was born in this dump and couldnt wait to leave! if you are anything but caucassion your opertunities are very very  More

Springfield is experiencing a rejeuvenation. Does the city have issues? Of course, what medium-sized city doesn't? During the past year, a new $1 billion MGM  More

This city has a bad rep that is unwarranted. I just bought a terrific little house in a quiet and friendly neighborhood. Everywhere I go in this town, people are  More

I just moved to Springfield almost a year now. I moved there because I know the housing stock there is plentiful. It's also very affordable. The most affordable place to  More