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Long Beach, CA vs Olympia, WA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Olympia has been positive.
- Olympia has 5.9% more unemployment than Long Beach.
- Olympia job growth has increased by 14.2% in the past 10 years.

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 Long Beach, CAOlympia, WAUnited States
 Current Unemployment11.5%5.6%6.0%
 Future Job Growth32.5%42.5%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-12.2%-2.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-11.6%2.5%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-8.6%9.0%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-2.8%14.2%6.3%

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Reviews for Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 4 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 6 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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Reviews for Olympia    39 Reviews

We moved here from Kitsap Bremerton/Silverdale WA area and this beats it all the way in all material ways. The only reason not to give it 5 stars is the cost of  More

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Over 3 years ago

The city is horrible. The business have been chased out by homeless. The city government makes it for difficult for businesses to thrive. If you like what Seattle is  More

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Having lived all over the world we decided to retire in Olympia and live on the Puget Sound. Yes it rains but the weather can change dramatically in a day with sun and  More

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ZIPS IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
90805, 90813, 90806, 90815, 90802, 90804, 90810, 90808, 90807, 90803, 13 total
ZIPS IN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
98501 98502 98506

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