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Medford, MA vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Santa Barbara has been positive.
- Santa Barbara has 1.3% more unemployment than Medford.
- Santa Barbara job growth has increased by 2.7% in the past 10 years.

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 Medford, MASanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment5.4%4.1%6.0%
 Future Job Growth40.3%28.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-9.1%-6.5%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-6.4%-2.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-3.1%-3.5%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth1.6%2.7%6.3%

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Reviews for Medford    2 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Medford is still an affordable place to live compared to the surrounding communities of Somerville, Cambridge, Winchester, and Arlington. It has easy access to highways  More

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Over 17 years ago

Quality housing still at affordable prices. A nice bedroom community 7 miles from downtown Boston with excellent access to Cape Cod and New  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 MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
02155
ZIPS IN SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
93101 93105 93103 93110 93109

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