2025 Compare Cities Health:
Providence, RI vs Santa Barbara, CA

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Highlights
- There are 216 physicians per 100,000 people in Santa Barbara.
- There are 271 physicians per 100,000 people in Providence.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Providence, RISanta Barbara, CAUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock64.458.4
 Water Quality (100=best)53  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock95.786.9
 Physicians per Cap.271  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock96100
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Reviews for Providence    19 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

I think I hate this city more then my  More

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Over 9 years ago

I currently live in Rockford IL and just graduated college for broadcasting. I want to move out of this depressing, negative city and was thinking about Providence,  More

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And I've been to San Francisco and Seattle, so that's saying a lot. If you like pot, good for you, my annoyance is with all the people who smoke pot plainly in  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 4 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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