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Fayetteville, NC vs Birmingham, AL

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Birmingham has been positive.
- Birmingham has 1.5% more unemployment than Fayetteville.
- Birmingham job growth has increased by 2.2% in the past 10 years.

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 Fayetteville, NCBirmingham, ALUnited States
 Current Unemployment7.1%5.6%6.0%
 Future Job Growth30.2%29.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.6%-3.7%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-4.9%-0.4%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-1.1%0.2%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-2.8%2.2%6.3%

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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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Reviews for Birmingham    25 Reviews

Birmingham is better than ever, meaning it is beginning to gain half of the stuff a normal city of its size has. The food scene is definitely an exception and is above  More

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Lived in the Birmingham for years. The small city was divided by the historical train tracks into the north half and the south one. The north section was the  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved to Birmingham 6.5 years ago for a new job. The city is very boring in my opinion, there isn't much to do over the weekend except shopping or eating out. Summer  More

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ZIPS IN FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
28314 28306 28304 28311 28303 28301 28307 28310 28305
ZIPS IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
35215, 35211, 35205, 35235, 35206, 35208, 35212, 35204, 35207, 35222, 18 total

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