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Santa Barbara, CA vs New York, NY

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Highlights
- Job Growth in New York has been positive.
- New York has 7.1% less unemployment than Santa Barbara.
- New York job growth has increased by 4.7% in the past 10 years.

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 Santa Barbara, CANew York, NYUnited States
 Current Unemployment4.1%11.2%6.0%
 Future Job Growth28.2%30.7%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.5%-12.4%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-2.9%-12.8%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-3.5%-11.2%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth2.7%-4.7%6.3%

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Reviews for Santa Barbara    51 Reviews

I moved to Santa Barbara around 23 years ago to study at Brooks, which like most of the Santa Barbara that I knew—has been destroyed. Homelessness, drugs, gangs, high  More

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Over 3 years ago

I fell in love with Santa Barbara about thirty years ago and finally moved here a few years ago. Because of the price of homes, it is an expensive place to live. The  More

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If you like high crime, paying a $4,500 a month mortgage and crazy high taxes, this is the place for you. It’s too bad because it wasn’t always like this. When I moved  More

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Reviews for New York    331 Reviews

I'm from the South and the perception I had was that New York was a filthy slum full of sketchy people and crime. I visited it, and it's actually on the other end of the  More

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New York City is crazy Great there are to many things to do and see in NYC for anyone to ever complain about the city other than most Of the population with stacked on  More

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Over 3 years ago

filthy. deplorable. weak character. the people of new york aren't classy, they're not even decent. rude, obnoxious, arrogant, and smug, and to make it all worse there's  More

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ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109
ZIPS IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK
11368, 11385, 10467, 11226, 11211, 11236, 11220, 11208, 11234, 11373, 209 total

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