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Springfield, IL vs Richlands, NC

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

#133 Best Green Cities

#196 2005 Best Places to Live

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

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

#163 Best Green Cities

#318 2005 Best Places to Live

I've lived here for over 40 years. Springfield is a decent place to raise a family. Solid midwestern values, and I've always felt safe. Opportunities exist, but there  More

I moved (back) to Springfield after living in various cities and towns around the country - as large as Milwaukee, as small as Baker, NV - and can say without  More

whole town smells like dirty ***** and  More

I’ve lived in RICHLANDS for 3 1/2 years now and have fallen in love with this little town! I could live anywhere in the US and chose RICHLANDS because of everything it  More

Richlands gives you quiet country living, but allows you to still be just a stone's throw from Jacksonville. Living here is very affordable we live in a subdivision in a  More

Lower elementary schools do a fine job with the kids but the middle school is lacking in academics resulting in poor performance for rising freshmen....we moved to  More