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#9 Best Cities After Military Service
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#13 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)
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#14 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)
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#81 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)
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#100 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)
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#117 Best Green Cities
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#284 2005 Best Places to Live
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Reviews for Powell    3 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Born in Powell Hospital in 1944 to a farm family. Older Sister Sharon (1939) was our Linchpin. Brother Tom (Earl Thompson,1943), set high standards for all of us, and  More

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I don't know what the "median" price for a home in Powell is but, $424,000 is way off ! It could be $154,000 but, just check the real estate web sites. The only place  More

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Do not come to Powell unless you have a lot of money as there are few jobs that pay any decent wages and housing prices are going through the roof. It seems the local  More

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Reviews for Rapid City    31 Reviews

I have lived in this city for the last three and half years and I can't stand it!! Let me spell it out for you, but to be fair, let me give you the Pros first:  More

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Unless you made your pension out of state or already bought a home you can't afford to liver there. Rapid City is gray in winter.  More

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Over 4 years ago

I've lived in the city 5 years a loved  More

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