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Chesapeake, VA vs Fayetteville, NC

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Fayetteville has been positive.
- Fayetteville has 2.1% less unemployment than Chesapeake.
- Fayetteville job growth has increased by 2.8% in the past 10 years.
 Chesapeake, VAFayetteville, NCUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock7.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth35.2%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-6.6%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-2.0%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock-1.1%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth9.0%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Chesapeake    33 Reviews

I lived here in Virginia near the Cedar Rd. not so far from Tidewater Community college. If you want a great place to live to raise children, its Chesapeake  More

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I live around this area currently, in the "Hampton Roads". Which consists of Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, and Chesapeake. We're  More

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I was born in Hampton Roads and lived there for more than 65 years. We lived in the city of Chesapeake for three years from 2014-2017. Frankly, we were very glad to  More

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Reviews for Fayetteville    46 Reviews

I have lived in Fayetteville for 21 years and I LOVE IT! Fayetteville is a military town and that is what brought my husband and I here originally. Since January 2000  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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I've lived in the area for a little over ten years - after moving around to many, many places in my career - and I find that Fay is overall pretty much average. Most of  More

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