2015’s Best Small Cities in America

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Posted: 11/4/2015 8:00:39 AM EDT

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-small-cities-to-live-in/16581/

But not everyone craves the bright lights and crowded spaces of the big city. For those who are a bit more claustrophobic, appreciate fewer degrees of separation and want more bang for their buck, small-city life is hard to beat.

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:13:08 AM EDT

[#1]

How can this be, It's the "golden state"?

And the worst.....

1246 Hemet, CA
1247 Merced, CA
1248 Los Banos, CA
1249 Montebello, CA
1250 Soledad, CA
1251 Desert Hot Springs, CA
1252 Bellflower, CA
1253 Wasco, CA
1254 Rosemead,
1255 National City, CA
1256 Hawthorne, CA
1257 Baldwin Park,
1258 Perris, CA
1259 Paramount,
1260 Delano, CA
1261 Watsonville, CA
1262 South Gate, CA
1263 Maywood, CA
1264 Lynwood,CA
1265 Compton,CA
1266 Bell Gardens,CA
1267 Huntington Park, CA
1268 Bell, CA

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:29:31 AM EDT

[#2]

It doesn't look like diversity was one of their criteria.

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:32:12 AM EDT

[#3]

Kearney and Hastings Nebraska?

That right there makes me skeptical.

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:40:42 AM EDT

[#4]

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Kearney and Hastings Nebraska?

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Lived in Hastings Ne. for a while, nice place. Good hunting, A gun club with a 300yd rifle range, trap, skeet, indoor 50yd heated pistol range, 24/365 access, and under used. You could always find a lane.
Good steak houses nearby, bars, cheap living at the time.
A liberal arts collage, so you could always find some tail if in the mood.
Good times.

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:41:11 AM EDT

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How can this be, It's the "golden state"?

And the worst.....

1246 Hemet, CA
1247 Merced, CA
1248 Los Banos, CA
1249 Montebello, CA
1250 Soledad, CA
1251 Desert Hot Springs, CA
1252 Bellflower, CA
1253 Wasco, CA
1254 Rosemead,
1255 National City, CA
1256 Hawthorne, CA
1257 Baldwin Park,
1258 Perris, CA
1259 Paramount,
1260 Delano, CA
1261 Watsonville, CA
1262 South Gate, CA
1263 Maywood, CA
1264 Lynwood,CA
1265 Compton,CA
1266 Bell Gardens,CA
1267 Huntington Park, CA
1268 Bell, CA

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You mean like piss?

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:43:23 AM EDT

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Quoted:
How can this be, It's the "golden state"?

And the worst.....

1246 Hemet, CA
1247 Merced, CA
1248 Los Banos, CA
1249 Montebello, CA
1250 Soledad, CA
1251 Desert Hot Springs, CA
1252 Bellflower, CA
1253 Wasco, CA
1254 Rosemead,
1255 National City, CA
1256 Hawthorne, CA
1257 Baldwin Park,
1258 Perris, CA
1259 Paramount,
1260 Delano, CA
1261 Watsonville, CA
1262 South Gate, CA
1263 Maywood, CA
1264 Lynwood,CA
1265 Compton,CA
1266 Bell Gardens,CA
1267 Huntington Park, CA
1268 Bell, CA

You mean like piss?

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:43:48 AM EDT

[#7]

Stupid criteria is stupid.

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:44:31 AM EDT

[#8]

I like how all of these small cities (for Texas at least) are suburbs of DFW primarily with New Braunfels that shit hole San Angelo added in.....

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:46:05 AM EDT

[#9]

Their version of small town and mine must differ a bit. A couple of those are local to me and are far from "small town" in any way

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:50:42 AM EDT

[#10]

I grew up in a small town. Nice memories. I'm too addicted to high wage employment and cultural amenities at this point though to be happy moving back to a small town. I do miss the social interconnections you have in a small town.

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:51:37 AM EDT

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Their version of small town and mine must differ a bit. A couple of those are local to me and are far from "small town" in any way

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I think they were going for the "small city" faggotry. Small towns FTMFW

Posted: 11/4/2015 8:55:44 AM EDT

[#12]

Kirkwood, Wildwood, and Ballwin, Missouri are not small cities or towns by any measure than the population inside their incorporated limits. Wildwood in particular is not inexpensive, and Ballwin has horrible, unbearable traffic.

The article was written without looking out the windows at reality.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:03:48 AM EDT

[#13]

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:04:54 AM EDT

[#14]

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I think they were going for the "small city" faggotry. Small towns FTMFW

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Their version of small town and mine must differ a bit. A couple of those are local to me and are far from "small town" in any way

I think they were going for the "small city" faggotry. Small towns FTMFW

Clearly says "small cities" in title and URL.

RIFF. 'murica

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:10:01 AM EDT

[#15]

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I live there, and I am moving to Ca in 4 months, I would rather stay here

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:18:21 AM EDT

[#16]

my idea of small town is more like 5000 people or so, not 60,000+ like most of those are

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:37:26 AM EDT

[#17]

I love my lack of city and diversity.

Hopefully Amazon will offer hot pizza delivery soon.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:40:00 AM EDT

[#18]

List is fucked if Surprise/El Mirage made it on there.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:45:19 AM EDT

[#19]

Edgewood, MD made the list? That place is ghetto with a capital G.

Kharn

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Posted: 11/4/2015 9:49:40 AM EDT

[#20]

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I love my lack of city and diversity.

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I'm surprised you can order from Amazon over a 9600 baud modem.....

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:53:38 AM EDT

[#21]

Hey, I've been to Leesburg,VA, but that was only to see the nearby battlefield, Ball's Bluff.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:54:12 AM EDT

[#22]

Detroit didn't make the list

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:56:21 AM EDT

[#23]

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Yeah, 25-100k. Not exactly "small" but I guess if they ranked truly small towns, it would be tough with the criteria they are using. How many museums, coffee shops, and pediatricians are they going to find in a town of 4k?

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:57:37 AM EDT

[#24]

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Ball's Bluff sounds like an experience I had with a girl and heavy drinking.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:57:41 AM EDT

[#25]

Paramus NJ is the #15's best small city in the country?

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:58:49 AM EDT

[#26]

Who the fuck makes these lists?

The list is shit.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:59:04 AM EDT

[#27]

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Quoted:
How can this be, It's the "golden state"?

And the worst.....

1246 Hemet, CA
1247 Merced, CA
1248 Los Banos, CA
1249 Montebello, CA
1250 Soledad, CA
1251 Desert Hot Springs, CA
1252 Bellflower, CA
1253 Wasco, CA
1254 Rosemead,
1255 National City, CA
1256 Hawthorne, CA
1257 Baldwin Park,
1258 Perris, CA
1259 Paramount,
1260 Delano, CA
1261 Watsonville, CA
1262 South Gate, CA
1263 Maywood, CA
1264 Lynwood,CA
1265 Compton,CA
1266 Bell Gardens,CA
1267 Huntington Park, CA
1268 Bell, CA

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I lived in Hemet for 7 years.

I'd consider a tour in Iraq to be a vacation..........

Lucky I got out alive and with all my parts intact.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:59:21 AM EDT

[#28]

.....And each of these cities will be receiving it's fair share of Middle Eastern,African,Mexican and OTM migrants if for no other reason than out of spite.

Posted: 11/4/2015 9:59:41 AM EDT

[#29]

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Kearney and Hastings Nebraska?
That right there makes me skeptical.

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I was skeptical as soon as I saw #1.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:06:18 AM EDT

[#30]

It's a nonsense list -- Brighton and Irondequoit NY are nothing but suburban extensions of Rochester, NY (a Dem hell-hole), and don't even have their own mail identity -- just ZIP codes of Rochester.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:06:31 AM EDT

[#31]

Kalamazoo is listed before Battle Creek.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:12:05 AM EDT

[#32]

That study is skewed.
The vast majority of those 'small towns" in Texas are nothing more than neighboring suburbs of Houston,Dallas, and San Antonio.
In other words not much better at all than living in Houston etc. because of population,crime,and sprawl.
Lol.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:14:04 AM EDT

[#33]

These rankings are so subjective. I lived in Princeton NJ for several years. I lived very near Princeton for decades.

I'm in Arkansas now and I am SO much happier. A company would have to offer to TRIPLE my salary for me to even begin to consider moving back.

-J

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:15:55 AM EDT

[#34]

I grew up in #413

A lot of northwest Chicago suburbs on the list.
#10 has my favorite indoor range

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:19:10 AM EDT

[#35]

From the list...Cape Girardeau, MO. Doesn't that place spend half the year underwater?

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:26:48 AM EDT

[#36]

Brookfield, WI, number 4 on the list, is very nice, but it really isn't a small stand-alone city. It's part of greater Milwaukee.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:28:45 AM EDT

[#37]

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my idea of small town is more like 5000 people or so, not 60,000+ like most of those are

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I've always lived in towns with around 2500 people, so a small town to me is 300 or less, and there are several around here.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:29:27 AM EDT

[#38]

At least my town is in the top 200 lol. Actually kind of surprised it is not in the top 100. Not sure how Pensacola FL or S. Portland ME beats it though, considering over the past 20 years, it's been in the top 5 safest cities in the US with a population of 30,000.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:30:08 AM EDT

[#39]

Highest Mean Hours Worked Per week... Twentynine Palms, CA and Jacksonville, NC are both in the top 5 lololol poor Devil Dogs...

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:32:27 AM EDT

[#40]

There are some real horrible places to live on that list.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:37:29 AM EDT

[#41]

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My town is in the top 200 and the schools and crime are pretty shitty at best.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:38:02 AM EDT

[#42]

This list is dumb.

They're talking about "a few degrees of separation" and small towns? Upper Arlington Ohio (#16) is literally right in the middle of Columbus and land locked on all sides by Columbus. There's no separation from a big city there. Dublin is another suburb but it is a little farther out at least.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:38:12 AM EDT

[#43]

lol i love that the villages is on so high @ 56

but is the lowest in millennial newcomers.

i used to work in the area, the average age has to be the upper 60's

also it was the only place I've seen with dedicated golfcart roads.

also if Fort Smith actually had jobs it wouldn't be so terrible.

Posted: 11/4/2015 10:55:49 AM EDT

[#44]

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Kirkwood, Wildwood, and Ballwin, Missouri are not small cities or towns by any measure than the population inside their incorporated limits. Wildwood in particular is not inexpensive, and Ballwin has horrible, unbearable traffic.

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Nailed it. Some of those in N. Dakota, Wyoming, etc. have some truly nasty weather quite frequently. Sure, the crime rate is low and housing is cheap but only because it's so damn cold and windy.