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Bristol, VA vs Chesapeake, VA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Chesapeake has been positive.
- Chesapeake has 1.0% more unemployment than Bristol.
- Chesapeake job growth has increased by 9.0% in the past 10 years.

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 Bristol, VAChesapeake, VAUnited States
 Current Unemployment6.0%5.0%6.0%
 Future Job Growth28.7%35.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-4.6%-5.8%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-4.3%-2.0%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-5.5%2.7%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-7.2%9.0%6.3%

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Reviews for Bristol    7 Reviews

Eat and live on the TN side, shop on the VA side.  More

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Over 6 years ago

I’ve lived here my whole life and the crime/drug rate keeps going up. This area is starting to go downhill. Not to mention the property taxes are  More

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Lived here my whole life basically and this place is going downhill. It’s a drug area. Mostly people on meth and pills. I feel like the crime rate just keeps going up.  More

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Reviews for Chesapeake    33 Reviews

I lived here in Virginia near the Cedar Rd. not so far from Tidewater Community college. If you want a great place to live to raise children, its Chesapeake  More

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I live around this area currently, in the "Hampton Roads". Which consists of Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, and Chesapeake. We're  More

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I was born in Hampton Roads and lived there for more than 65 years. We lived in the city of Chesapeake for three years from 2014-2017. Frankly, we were very glad to  More

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ZIPS IN CHESAPEAKE, VIRGINIA
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