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Houston, TX vs Vancouver, WA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Vancouver has been positive.
- Vancouver has 1.6% more unemployment than Houston.
- Vancouver job growth has increased by 18.0% in the past 10 years.

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 Houston, TXVancouver, WAUnited States
 Current Unemployment8.0%6.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth30.9%38.8%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.6%-4.7%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-3.8%4.7%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-4.6%10.9%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth6.1%18.0%6.3%

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Reviews for Houston    371 Reviews

Over 2 years ago

I moved to Houston from the San Francisco Bay area in 1991 after college but I have always had family here. Houston is not what you think of when you think of Texas  More

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Over 2 years ago

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

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Over 2 years ago

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

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Reviews for Vancouver    57 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

This city has traffic similar to Seattle. I think some drivers here are aggressive and are not able to stay calm under stress. Although the rent prices seem reasonable I  More

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Plus no pone wants a new bridge it has been voted down a thousand times but now the city of Vancouver is going to try and sneak one in anyway and the nice small feeling  More

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The city is corrupt, department heads taking bribes, 2 yr community college almost destroyed because the faculty are making it into a 4 yr college. Mormon corruption  More

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ZIPS IN HOUSTON, TEXAS
77449, 77084, 77429, 77379, 77036, 77433, 77095, 77072, 77077, 77088, 100 total
ZIPS IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON
98682 98661 98683 98684 98664 98663 98660

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