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Pittsfield, MA vs Plainfield, NJ

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

#14 Best Green Cities

#14 Most Competitive Private Colleges

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

#243 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#2 Sleepless Cities 2011

#2 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#2 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#3 The Most Single Cities

#3 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#4 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#5 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

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

#5 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

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

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#7 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#7 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#8 Most Affordable Colleges

#8 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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#9 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#10 Failure To Lunch

#10 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

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

#11 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#12 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#13 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#13 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#14 Healthiest Cities

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

#14 America’s Least Manly Cities

#15 Gloomiest Places in America

#15 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#16 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#16 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#19 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#24 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#25 Best Block Party Places

#25 Stressful Cities 2012

#28 America's Most Playful Cities

#29 Most Energetic Cities

#29 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#29 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#34 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#34 America's Top Hygge Cities

#35 Best Baseball Cities

#35 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#35 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#40 2005 Best Places to Live

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#42 Hypertension Hot Spots

#43 2005 High Gas Prices

#45 Sleep in the City Study

#49 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#50 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#50 America’s Manliest Cities

#75 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#106 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#234 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

This city is not as bad as your Newark or Trenton, although it does have it's problems, murder rate is up in 08, and the primary gangs around town are the Bloods and  More

Just like anywhere else,there are good and bad areas in Plainfield. I would be careful on the West End, however the East end has beautiful homes that are in the millions  More

I and my wife moved here about 1.5 yrs ago. We are both professionals, and while we realize that Plainfield has its problems, it is not the cesspool so many think it is.  More