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Poughkeepsie, NY vs New Orleans, LA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in New Orleans has been positive.
- New Orleans has 2.5% less unemployment than Poughkeepsie.
- New Orleans job growth has increased by 7.2% in the past 10 years.
 Poughkeepsie, NYNew Orleans, LAUnited States
 Current Unemployment8.5%11.0%6.0%
 Future Job Growth26.6%25.1%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.9%-7.3%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-4.2%-5.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-3.0%-5.8%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth-5.0%7.2%6.3%
Reviews for Poughkeepsie    10 Reviews

Over 6 years ago

I have mixed feelings about Poughkeepsie because there are equally as many things I love about that town as there are things I hate about it so I'm just going to write a  More

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Over 11 years ago

Prices are high here. housing is easily 25-30percent of our monthly  More

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Over 12 years ago

It'd be great if jobs were available. This city is OK but COL is so much higher in NY than where I was raised in South Maybe I should head  More

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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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