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Long Beach, CA vs Petaluma, CA

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- People living in Petaluma are 17.6% less likely to have a religous affiliation, than people living in Long Beach
 Long Beach, CAPetaluma, CAUnited States
 Percent Religious  Unlock35.9%49.4%
 Baptist2.0%  Unlock8.2%
 Episcopalian  Unlock0.4%0.6%
 Catholic37.0%  Unlock19.7%
 Church of Jesus Christ  Unlock1.9%2.1%
 Lutheran0.5%  Unlock2.4%
 Pentecostal  Unlock0.7%1.9%
 Methodist1.2%  Unlock4.0%
 Presbyterian  Unlock0.9%1.7%
 Other Christian5.2%  Unlock6.7%
 Judaism  Unlock0.4%0.7%
 Eastern1.1%  Unlock0.5%
 Islam  Unlock0.5%0.9%
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 6 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 8 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 Petaluma    16 Reviews

I agree with the low star reviews. Been here for 25 years, raised a family and seen everything turn to the left and worse. Weather is glorious, love the old Victorians  More

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We’ve lived here for 3 years and we love it. It has taken some time to grow on us. We moved from SF where we had lived over 15 years, we were not used to one year leases  More

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I’ve lived here a couple of years (after living in others parts of the Bay Area for 15+ years) and I love it! Great neighborhoods, friendly folks, good schools with  More

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