Calais logs 0 outdoor-dinner months a year to Lyon's 5 — Lyon wins by 5. Calais also leads on frost days by 41.

Lyon averages $2,243/mo for balanced living; Calais has no cost baseline yet.

On mobility, Lyon scores 3.8 vs Calais's 2.4 (0–5 scale), with the biggest gap on walkability.

Lyon's culture score of 3.7 sits well above Calais's 0.0.

Lyon scores 3.8 on nature & outdoors (0–5 scale); Calais has no nature & outdoors baseline.

Lyon scores 2.8 on safety (0–5 scale); Calais has no safety baseline.

Lyon scores 3.2 on career (0–5 scale); Calais has no career baseline.

Lyon scores 2.7 on social & community (0–5 scale); Calais has no social & community baseline.

Lyon scores 3.0 on food & dining (0–5 scale); Calais has no food & dining baseline.

Lyon scores 3.1 on family (0–5 scale); Calais has no family baseline.

Lyon scores 3.0 on healthcare (0–5 scale); Calais has no healthcare baseline.

Calais averages 9.1 µg/m³ (good) PM2.5 annually versus Lyon's 10.6 µg/m³ (moderate) — Calais breathes ~14% cleaner air (1.5 µg/m³ lower).

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