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Pittsfield, MA vs Nashua, NH

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

#14 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#14 Best Green Cities

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

#243 2005 Best Places to Live

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

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

#10 Best Places for Military Retirees

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

#78 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#151 2005 Best Places to Live

#235 2005 Best Places to Live

#238 Best Green Cities

I have grown up in Pittsfield, moved away, and came back. The loss of the GE manufacturing plant in the 80's adversely affected this blue collar city. This is not the  More

Pittsfield has done nothing to attract any form of business for the 40 of 47 years that I have lived here. The current tax rate is now 3.7% for business property - that  More

Hello, I was surprised to see Pittsfield, MA, listed as one of the towns with least crime. We've had 4 shootings since the beginning of the year! Where do you get  More

Twenty or so years ago, this was a pretty nice city. Convenient and safe. Now, at least over the past decade-to-decade and a half, it's changed for the worse. Mainly the  More

Did a short term stay here for work, it was the most depressing place I could ever imagine. Boring, unfriendly people, freezing winter, crap restaurants, and horrible  More

I have lived in many places across southern NH - and Nashua is by far the most community oriented place I have lived. The Library, Main Street initiatives, and parks  More