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Tyler, TX vs Yelm, WA

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

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

#138 2005 Best Places to Live

#334 Best Green Cities

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

#4 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Mid-Size Cities)

#10 Safest Places from Natural Disasters

#16 2005 Best Places to Live

#36 Best Green Cities

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

Upon reading numerous reviews on living in Tyler TX, after I and my family moved here!!!! I really wish I had read before leaving my home state to come here. Most of the  More

My husband and I moved to a cabin in the woods just outside Tyler in 2007, so we've been here almost 15 years. Pros that other reviewers haven't mentioned: 1. very  More

Great place to live if you have your crap together. Lots of professionals and families. Great parks, weather, restaurants, churches, and schools. If you like big  More

Yelm is a very nice city to live in. Small enough to have that small town flavor but big enough not to be cramped. Has access to pretty much everywhere you want to go.  More

I've lived in Yelm 2 years now and LOVE IT! We moved here to get away of the crazyness and extreamly crampedness of the "suburbia"of Puyallup which is just outside of  More