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Dover, DE vs Raleigh, NC

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Raleigh has been positive.
- Raleigh has 6.0% more unemployment than Dover.
- Raleigh job growth has increased by 17.5% in the past 10 years.
 Dover, DERaleigh, NCUnited States
 Current Unemployment10.3%4.3%6.0%
 Future Job Growth32.2%44.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-4.0%-5.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-1.6%-2.3%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-0.9%3.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth4.4%17.5%6.3%
Reviews for Dover    9 Reviews

Key points are "an excellent quality of life and a low crime rate" as well as low taxes. Delaware attracts the highest percentage of retirees, plus people of all other  More

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Dover, DE is a great placed to live. I work at OCEAN, which is a non profit organization that sponsors high school exchange students. We had foreign students reside in  More

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Over 6 years ago

Dover, like any town other than Newark, is very unsophisticated, boring, unfriendly, and uneducated. I've resided in many states and Delaware will be the state that I  More

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Reviews for Raleigh    224 Reviews

I moved to Raleigh in 2018. Before that, I lived in Orange County CA, Boulder CO, South Africa, Northern California, Arizona, and Toronto. I say all this to give  More

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Excellent for a great many people or categories of people. As far as prices: ratio of wage and job opportunity here with housing remains one of the better ones in the  More

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Over 1 years ago

I attended university here in the early 90s and came back around 2005 and never left. I'm surprised at the other negative reviews honestly. Yes, housing is pricey in  More

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