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Rochester, NY vs Arkadelphia, AR

#2 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

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

#6 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#6 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

#6 America's Top Hygge Cities

#7 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#7 Most Affordable Colleges

#8 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#9 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#18 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

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

#25 2005 High Gas Prices

#25 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#27 Hypertension Hot Spots

#35 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#36 America’s Manliest Cities

#37 America’s Least Manly Cities

#37 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#39 Most Energetic Cities

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

#41 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#43 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#45 The Most Single Cities

#46 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#48 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#48 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#50 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#54 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

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

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

#93 Best Green Cities

#214 2005 Best Places to Live

Stay out of the rougher patches, and you'll find a pretty solid city. I live within close proximity to it, and the crime from it DOES rub off on us (auto theft), but  More

Rochester isn't perfect (I'll detail pros and cons), but it's certainly perfect for me and my husband. We've lived here for 4 years and are getting ready to purchase our  More

Rochester is a scenic city with so much to offer in terms of things to do and having 4 seasons, except the summer is more like a long spring!! It's a relatively unknown  More

I attended Henderson State University which is one of the two colleges in Arkadelphia. I came from a different town in Arkansas that had much more to do, so Arkadelphia  More

Arkadelphia has a water park, two or three parks, its just a few minutes to get to beautiful Lake DeGray. Hot Springs has the other things that you might want to go to  More

Two large Universitys dominate the town and compete with each other. In general the town is orderly and neat with a true Old South feeling. Most of the citizens are  More