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Rochester, MN vs Carlsbad, NM

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Carlsbad has been positive.
- Carlsbad has 4.8% less unemployment than Rochester.
- Carlsbad job growth has increased by 37.8% in the past 10 years.

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 Rochester, MNCarlsbad, NMUnited States
 Current Unemployment3.6%8.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth34.7%34.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-0.9%-6.6%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth2.8%13.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth7.0%11.6%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth14.4%37.8%6.3%

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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Reviews for Carlsbad    15 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

We used to visit here every few years from Michigan just to see the Living Desert State Park. A very long way to drive to spend a a couple of days in this hauntingly  More

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Been here 9 years. Very difficult place. Price gouging, extremely expensive to live here. Crazy amounts of crime, cops do nothing. Very crowded, bad traffic and crazy  More

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I've lived here ten years and hate it. It's an oilfield town and they take advantage of that by doing a lot of price gouging... it's very difficult to find reasonably  More

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ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905
ZIPS IN CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO
88220

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