Small Metros That have big city style problems (living, crime, population)

[DavieJ89]

Crime, Traffic, Schools, Overcrowding, anything you can think of Small Metros are defined as 1.5 Mil or less people living in them

Hartford
Jacksonville
Springfield, MA
Scranton
Providence
Salt Lake City
Albuquerque
Little Rock
Grand Rapids
Birmingham
Jackson

Any others you can think of?

[Akhenaton06]

I think you need to be much more specific here.

[Francois]

Raleigh/Durham, NC is heading that way, with the population growing way too fast for the infrastructure to keep up. Crime is not bad, but traffic is worsening horribly. Somehow, everyone in the Northeast decided to move here all at once.