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Portland, ME vs Mio, MI

#4 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

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

#15 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

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

#21 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#34 Best Green Cities

#81 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#89 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#236 2005 Best Places to Live

Used to be great before the pandemic. Now people from out of state have ruined it by paying New York prices for real estate site unseen. Why would you live in Maine when  More

I have never lived here but the lack of Jimmy John’s is depressing and makes me wish I was deceased.  More

I found out I was allergic to corn on the cob here. I would give Portland twelve thumbs downs if I could. My friend told me there was a subway here and I thought he  More

I have lived in mio almost 20 years and I have disliked it for most of it. The schools are lousy, people are judgmental, there are alot of teen pregnancies, the housing  More

Mio is a small village. It is located in the AuSable River Valley. The air is some of the cleanest in the U.S. and so is the water. The AuSable one of the nation's  More

We moved here from a bigger town 3 1/2 years ago. My husband used to have a chronic cold and now with the clean air his cold has disappeared. The village is small but  More