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Sunnyvale, CA vs Poughkeepsie, NY

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Poughkeepsie has been positive.
- Poughkeepsie has 4.6% less unemployment than Sunnyvale.
- Poughkeepsie job growth has increased by 5.0% in the past 10 years.

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 Sunnyvale, CAPoughkeepsie, NYUnited States
 Current Unemployment3.9%8.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth41.4%26.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-7.1%-5.9%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-5.6%-4.2%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-2.0%-3.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth15.5%-5.0%6.3%

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Reviews for Sunnyvale    14 Reviews

At this point, I would only recommend moving to silicon valley for the job market. Sure, the weather is great and the restaurants offer huge variety. But the costs of  More

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Like previous reviewer, tech company's tyranny over city gov and quality of living has negatively impacted a fantastic place to live. Climate, while super, is grossly  More

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I've lived here for 40 years. While the weather is fabulous, For the past ten years of high density housing mostly needed to house thousands of a young up coming tech  More

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Reviews for Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 11 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 12 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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ZIPS IN SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA
94087 94086 94085 94089
ZIPS IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK
12601

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