2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Providence, RI vs New Bern, NC

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#5 Best Block Party Places

#6 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#8 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#8 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#9 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#10 Sleepless Cities 2011

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#12 America's Top Hygge Cities

#14 Gloomiest Places in America

#18 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#19 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

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

#20 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#21 America's Most Playful Cities

#22 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

#23 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#24 Hypertension Hot Spots

#24 Failure To Lunch

#27 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#29 Stressful Cities 2012

#30 America’s Least Manly Cities

#31 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#33 America’s Manliest Cities

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

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

#36 Most Energetic Cities

#38 Healthiest Cities

#38 The Most Single Cities

#39 Best Baseball Cities

#39 2005 High Gas Prices

#42 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#44 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#45 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#49 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#62 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

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

#74 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#86 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#161 Best Green Cities

#173 2005 Best Places to Live

#319 2005 Best Places to Live

I think I hate this city more then my  More

I currently live in Rockford IL and just graduated college for broadcasting. I want to move out of this depressing, negative city and was thinking about Providence,  More

And I've been to San Francisco and Seattle, so that's saying a lot. If you like pot, good for you, my annoyance is with all the people who smoke pot plainly in  More

New Bern is a nice quiet town. The people are very nice. The cost of living is low which would be great if you are retiring from a big city. There is always a place eat,  More

I’ve lived here for my hole Life I’m 12 and I just wanna say if u what snow every xmas and on Xmas don’t come here bc u won’t get it. Now if u want a very hot summer  More

My wife and I spent a week here and found it to be an enjoyable area. I have been looking to move to NC for a while now and I think this trip talked her into it.  More