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New Orleans, LA vs Columbia, MD

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Columbia has been positive.
- Columbia has 6.5% more unemployment than New Orleans.
- Columbia job growth has increased by 15.4% in the past 10 years.

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 New Orleans, LAColumbia, MDUnited States
 Current Unemployment11.0%4.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth25.1%34.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-7.3%-6.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-5.9%-1.8%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-5.8%2.8%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth7.2%15.4%6.3%

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Reviews for New Orleans    87 Reviews

Over 1 years ago

I have lived in NOLA for 6 years. Like all cities, you must take the good with the bad. It is more expensive than what you read about on the internet. The drivers are  More

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Over 2 years ago

I've lived here for going on 3 years. The person who lives with me wanted us to move here. It got old for me very soon after we moved here. Neither of us like it.   More

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Lived here 20 years, transplant from a dank Midwestern metropolis. For the first 15 years I was pretty much one of those rabid people foaming at the mouth whenever  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 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
70119, 70122, 70118, 70131, 70115, 70126, 70117, 70127, 70114, 70124, 19 total
ZIPS IN COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
21044 21045 21046 21029

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