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Rochester, MN vs Irvine, CA

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Irvine has been positive.
- Irvine has 1.8% less unemployment than Rochester.
- Irvine job growth has increased by 31.1% in the past 10 years.

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 Rochester, MNIrvine, CAUnited States
 Current Unemployment3.6%5.4%6.0%
 Future Job Growth34.7%40.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-0.9%-9.6%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth2.8%-4.9%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth7.0%4.5%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth14.4%31.1%6.3%

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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Reviews for Irvine    42 Reviews

We've lived in Irvine since '87. We have raised two children within the ISUD. Both are grown up. Sure, there have been many changes since then.. the City has  More

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I've lived in Irvine for 2 years and in Orange County for 10 so I'm pretty familiar with the area by now and all it has to offer. Perhaps my review of this place has  More

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I wouldn't live elsewhere. I originally moved to Irvine in 2002 from the Midwest, not knowing what it even was. I left and moved around a great deal locally in OC,  More

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ZIPS IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
55901 55904 55902 55906 55905
ZIPS IN IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
92620 92618 92612 92604 92602 92614 92606 92603 92617

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