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Chesapeake, VA vs Poughkeepsie, NY

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Poughkeepsie has been positive.
- Poughkeepsie has 3.5% less unemployment than Chesapeake.
- Poughkeepsie job growth has increased by 5.0% in the past 10 years.
 Chesapeake, VAPoughkeepsie, NYUnited States
 Current Unemployment5.0%8.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth35.2%26.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.8%-5.9%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-2.0%-4.2%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth2.7%-3.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth9.0%-5.0%6.3%
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 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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