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Rapid City, SD vs Truth or Consequences, NM

#9 Best Cities After Military Service

#13 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#14 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)

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

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

#117 Best Green Cities

#284 2005 Best Places to Live

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

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

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

I've lived here 10 years and was recently thinking about adding to my small rental portfolio...then I saw an episode of Island Life and Hawaii Life and remembered how  More

Occasional crime sprees (series of break-ins, robberies) interspersed with fairly long periods of quiet. I feel MUCH safe than I would living in Albuquerque and will go  More

numbers can be deceiving-the stats don't look bad here for a lot of categories....but I lived in T or c for 7 yrs...maybe the air is clean in regard to normal industrial  More