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Fort Collins, CO vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Santa Barbara has been positive.
- Santa Barbara has 1.5% more unemployment than Fort Collins.
- Santa Barbara job growth has increased by 2.7% in the past 10 years.

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 Fort Collins, COSanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment5.6%4.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth51.8%28.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-4.6%-6.5%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-0.3%-2.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth7.7%-3.5%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth21.5%2.7%6.3%

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Reviews for Fort Collins    71 Reviews

Over 2 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 3 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 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 FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
80525 80526 80521 80524 80528
ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109

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