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Ridgecrest, CA vs New Orleans, LA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in New Orleans has been positive.
- New Orleans has 6.9% less unemployment than Ridgecrest.
- New Orleans job growth has increased by 7.2% in the past 10 years.

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 Ridgecrest, CANew Orleans, LAUnited States
 Current Unemployment4.1%11.0%6.0%
 Future Job Growth26.0%25.1%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.1%-7.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-4.2%-5.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-5.4%-5.8%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth5.1%7.2%6.3%

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Reviews for Ridgecrest    7 Reviews

For context, I grew up in Ridgecrest and moved away after graduating high school. I have since lived in LA and the Bay Area but I visit RC often. RC is in the high  More

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Ridgecrest and Kern County are red state bastions in a land of blue voting counties. If you want a concealed weapons permit, you'll get it. Want to own any firearm  More

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Over 12 years ago

The hardest thing to get used to in Ridgecrest is the weather. It can get quite windy. And hot. 115 hot. But it's a dry heat! It does cool off in the evening, and it  More

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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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ZIPS IN RIDGECREST, CALIFORNIA
93555
ZIPS IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
70119, 70122, 70118, 70131, 70115, 70126, 70117, 70127, 70114, 70124, 19 total

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