2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Providence, RI vs Watertown Town, MA

#4 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#5 Best Block Party Places

#6 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#8 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#8 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#9 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#10 Sleepless Cities 2011

#12 America's Top Hygge Cities

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#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 Failure To Lunch

#24 Hypertension Hot Spots

#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

#1 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#1 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#1 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#2 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#2 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#2 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#2 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#3 America’s Least Manly Cities

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

#4 The Most Single Cities

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

#5 Most Energetic Cities

#6 America's Most Playful Cities

#7 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#7 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#8 America's Top Hygge Cities

#8 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#8 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#8 Sleep in the City Study

#9 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#9 America's Top Hygge Cities

#10 Gloomiest Places in America

#11 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#11 Healthiest Cities

#12 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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

#13 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#15 Best Baseball Cities

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

#19 Failure To Lunch

#19 2005 High Gas Prices

#20 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#20 Sleepless Cities 2011

#22 Best Block Party Places

#24 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#24 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#26 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

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

#33 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#35 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 America’s Manliest Cities

#40 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#41 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#42 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#43 Hypertension Hot Spots

#45 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

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

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

#64 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#67 Best Green Cities

#71 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#108 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#121 Best Green Cities

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

I’ve lived in Watertown for 3½ years after living in Cambridge. It’s slightly further out and could use a couple more MBTA bus lines to make being car-free easier  More

Watertown has "small town charm" in abundance despite literally sharing borders with both Boston and  More

I first lived in Watertown several years ago as fresh college grad, and now I've been here again for 2 years with my husband and son. In both instances, I've loved it.   More