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

#113 Best Green Cities

#132 2005 Best Places to Live

#2 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

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

#5 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#8 Sleepless Cities 2011

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

#9 America’s Manliest Cities

#9 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#9 2005 High Gas Prices

#10 The Best Cities to Relocate to in America

#11 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#11 Hypertension Hot Spots

#11 Best Block Party Places

#11 Gloomiest Places in America

#12 Most Congested Cities

#14 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#15 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#18 America's Top Hygge Cities

#18 Most Energetic Cities

#20 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#21 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#22 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#23 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#25 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#25 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#25 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#26 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

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

#28 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#30 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#31 Failure To Lunch

#31 Stressful Cities 2012

#33 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#34 America’s Least Manly Cities

#39 America's Most Playful Cities

#41 Healthiest Cities

#45 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

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

#49 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#50 The Most Single Cities

#55 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#56 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#79 2005 Best Places to Live

#274 Best Green Cities

When it comes to standard of living, neighborhoods, safety, schools, wage earners and tax dollar contributing citizens Mishawaka hands down, will always made better  More

Moving here is much harder than growing up here, I know from many people I've talked to. When you grow up here you learn how to interact with people, everyone will seem  More

I’ve lived in the city for 4 years now and have honestly had a good experience so far. I live in a quite neighborhood and have had no issues with crime or violence.  More

I've lived in Plainfield 3 years now and have lived in the Indianapolis metro area since 1998. Here are the major pluses I found with this town. - Pedestrian and  More

I moved my family (husband and kids) back to IN several years ago to be closer to family. After 6 (7? - I've lost track) years, we are ready to move on. We chose  More

I moved to Plainfield several years ago, and am really impressed by the focus on families, recreation, and values. The town has built a recreation complex that includes  More