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Columbia, MD vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Santa Barbara has been positive.
- Santa Barbara has 0.4% more unemployment than Columbia.
- Santa Barbara job growth has increased by 2.7% in the past 10 years.

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 Columbia, MDSanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment4.5%4.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth34.2%28.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.2%-6.5%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-1.8%-2.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth2.8%-3.5%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth15.4%2.7%6.3%

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Reviews for Columbia    28 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Lived here for a while, beautiful opportunities, pays well, overall nice  More

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Been here 30 years was great at first but once they added a transit bus from baltimore to columbia 15-18 years ago that was the beginning of the end. And about 5 years  More

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Columbia can be described in one word: unequal. The neighborhood I live in, River Hill, is jam-packed with almost million-dollar homes, while the neighborhoods of Long  More

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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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ZIPS IN COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
21044 21045 21046 21029
ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109

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