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New Orleans, LA vs Ottawa, IL

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Ottawa has been positive.
- Ottawa has 3.7% more unemployment than New Orleans.
- Ottawa job growth has increased by 12.1% in the past 10 years.

Job Market
 New Orleans, LAOttawa, ILUnited States
 Current Unemployment11.0%7.3%6.0%
 Future Job Growth25.1%20.0%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-7.3%-8.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-5.9%-10.1%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-5.8%-10.8%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth7.2%-12.1%6.3%

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Reviews for New Orleans    87 Reviews

Over 1 years ago

I have lived in NOLA for 6 years. Like all cities, you must take the good with the bad. It is more expensive than what you read about on the internet. The drivers are  More

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Over 2 years ago

I've lived here for going on 3 years. The person who lives with me wanted us to move here. It got old for me very soon after we moved here. Neither of us like it.   More

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Lived here 20 years, transplant from a dank Midwestern metropolis. For the first 15 years I was pretty much one of those rabid people foaming at the mouth whenever  More

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Reviews for Ottawa    6 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

Have all of the radiation sites been cleaned up? If not, did the tornado stir up and blast some radiation from these sites to other  More

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Over 10 years ago

Good location with low cost of living and close enough to Chicago and suburbs to take advantage of their  More

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Over 14 years ago

Although Ottawa is a very nice place to live, living here is becoming rediculous...as taxes go. I bought a house less then four years ago and my taxed went from  More

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ZIPS IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
70119, 70122, 70118, 70131, 70115, 70126, 70117, 70127, 70114, 70124, 19 total
ZIPS IN OTTAWA, ILLINOIS
61350

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