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Raleigh, NC vs Long Beach, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Long Beach has been positive.
- Long Beach has 7.2% less unemployment than Raleigh.
- Long Beach job growth has increased by 2.8% in the past 10 years.

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 Raleigh, NCLong Beach, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment4.3%11.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth44.2%32.5%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-5.2%-12.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-2.3%-11.6%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth3.0%-8.6%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth17.5%-2.8%6.3%

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Reviews for Raleigh    224 Reviews

I moved to Raleigh in 2018. Before that, I lived in Orange County CA, Boulder CO, South Africa, Northern California, Arizona, and Toronto. I say all this to give  More

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Excellent for a great many people or categories of people. As far as prices: ratio of wage and job opportunity here with housing remains one of the better ones in the  More

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Over 1 years ago

I attended university here in the early 90s and came back around 2005 and never left. I'm surprised at the other negative reviews honestly. Yes, housing is pricey in  More

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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 4 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 6 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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ZIPS IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
27610, 27603, 27616, 27604, 27606, 27613, 27615, 27612, 27614, 27609, 15 total
ZIPS IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
90805, 90813, 90806, 90815, 90802, 90804, 90810, 90808, 90807, 90803, 13 total

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