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Sarasota, FL vs Long Beach, CA

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- Long Beach has 75.7% less rainy days than Sarasota.
- Long Beach has 14.3% more Sunny Days than Sarasota.
- On the BestPlaces comfort index, Long Beach scores 36.8% better than Sarasota
 Sarasota, FLLong Beach, CAUnited States
 Rainfall  Unlock1438
 Snowfall0  Unlock28
 Precipitation  Unlock32106
 Sunny251  Unlock205
 Avg. July High  Unlock7986
 Avg. Jan. Low51  Unlock22
 Comfort Index (higher=better)  Unlock9.37
 UV Index6.7  Unlock4.3
 Elevation  Unlock302443
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 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 5 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 7 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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