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Sarasota, FL vs Columbia, MD

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Columbia has been positive.
- Columbia has 0.1% more unemployment than Sarasota.
- Columbia job growth has increased by 15.4% in the past 10 years.

Job Market
 Sarasota, FLColumbia, MDUnited States
 Current Unemployment4.6%4.5%6.0%
 Future Job Growth44.6%34.2%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-6.0%-6.2%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-4.1%-1.8%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth0.3%2.8%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth14.4%15.4%6.3%

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Reviews for Sarasota    105 Reviews

Sarasota is my home from birth but those of us who have lived here long enough to have seen the devolution of what was once an easy to navigate, clean, low crime beach  More

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Starting to love Sarasota: Wife and I moved to Osprey- a small suburb between Sarasota and Venice. We're about 13 miles to downtown Sarasota, so not "city dwellers".   More

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As always, anyone considering moving to anyplace new, including Sarasota, needs to come down and spend a month or two before actually moving here. The city is overrun  More

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Reviews for Columbia    28 Reviews

Over 4 years ago

Lived here for a while, beautiful opportunities, pays well, overall nice  More

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Been here 30 years was great at first but once they added a transit bus from baltimore to columbia 15-18 years ago that was the beginning of the end. And about 5 years  More

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Columbia can be described in one word: unequal. The neighborhood I live in, River Hill, is jam-packed with almost million-dollar homes, while the neighborhoods of Long  More

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ZIPS IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA
34234 34237 34239 34236
ZIPS IN COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
21044 21045 21046 21029

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