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Fort Collins, CO vs Ridgefield, WA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Ridgefield has been positive.
- Ridgefield has 0.6% more unemployment than Fort Collins.
- Ridgefield job growth has increased by 18.8% in the past 10 years.
 Fort Collins, CORidgefield, WAUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock6.2%6.0%
 Future Job Growth51.8%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-4.7%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-0.3%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock10.4%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth21.5%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Moved my family here a few months ago and have been so disappointed. Housing is dismal - you get low quality and almost nothing for what you’re paying. The house we’re  More

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Over 4 years ago

There is a high cost of living in all of Colorado, and there is a train that runs through the town a honks its horn for about 5 min straight which is very annoying  More

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My family established our home in Larimer County in 1973; this area, Fort Collins, was a quaint, western-ish town we loved to visit. So I’ve visited FoCo multiple times  More

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Reviews for Ridgefield    3 Reviews

We have lived in Ridgefield for 16 years. Seen it grow into one of the best places to live in America - if not the best. Not far from I-15, best schools in State,  More

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Over 18 years ago

but it's gotten overrun with yuppie types. Probably what the people that lived here when I moved in thought,  More

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Moved here fifteen years ago from the Montclair area of the Bay Area. Wanted the best of San Francisco Bay Area without the traffic, over population. Less than 20  More

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