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Charleston, SC vs Columbia, MD

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Columbia has been positive.
- Columbia has 0.5% more unemployment than Charleston.
- Columbia job growth has increased by 15.4% in the past 10 years.

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 Charleston, SCColumbia, MDUnited States
 Current Unemployment4.0%4.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth35.9%34.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-3.7%-6.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth1.0%-1.8%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth3.3%2.8%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth17.6%15.4%6.3%

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Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 1 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 4 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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Reviews for Columbia    28 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Lived here for a while, beautiful opportunities, pays well, overall nice  More

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Been here 30 years was great at first but once they added a transit bus from baltimore to columbia 15-18 years ago that was the beginning of the end. And about 5 years  More

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Columbia can be described in one word: unequal. The neighborhood I live in, River Hill, is jam-packed with almost million-dollar homes, while the neighborhoods of Long  More

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ZIPS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
29412, 29414, 29407, 29403, 29455, 29492, 29401, 29450, 29409, 29424, 10 total
ZIPS IN COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
21044 21045 21046 21029

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