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Carbondale, IL vs Charleston, SC

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Charleston has been positive.
- Charleston has 2.7% more unemployment than Carbondale.
- Charleston job growth has increased by 17.6% in the past 10 years.

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 Carbondale, ILCharleston, SCUnited States
 Current Unemployment6.7%4.0%6.0%
 Future Job Growth21.3%35.9%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.9%-3.7%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-6.8%1.0%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-7.7%3.3%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-6.7%17.6%6.3%

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Reviews for Carbondale    7 Reviews

I've lived in C'dale for over 30 years. I got an excellent education here - Giant City School was great, though fairly insular and not very diverse (among its drawbacks  More

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Over 16 years ago

I like Carbondale. It is relaxing and an easy way to go about getting a college degree. It has its ups and downs, mainly with the people in the town not recognizing the  More

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All of the comments are negative here and seem to me to be misleading. The idea that you have to have a lot of money in Carbondale is ridiculous. The price of cultural  More

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Reviews for Charleston    76 Reviews

Over 1 years ago

Charleston is beautiful and unique and incredibly special. If you don't believe me, just ask Anthony Bourdain in his Parts Unknown episode - and he was an insightful  More

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Serious lack of health care and "good old boys club" whereby doctors will not even see the patient but diagnose them based on referring doctor. My sister died there for  More

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Over 4 years ago

Boy, has this once beautiful town changed...for the worse! I initially moved here 20 years ago because the people were so nice, no traffic, great choice of hospitals,  More

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ZIPS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
29412, 29414, 29407, 29403, 29455, 29492, 29401, 29450, 29409, 29424, 10 total

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