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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by 14thandYou
Which shows you how absurd such polls are.
I agree.
I've never been a fan of such idiotic and subjective listings in the first place, however I will say there are great benefits for being featured or having places in your Metropolitan Area featured in such lists. Whether its deserving of or not.
Forbes is a national icon for ranking what the gullible Americans consider "the best of the best" and many people buy way too much into it, way to many people to even imagine. In fact I was going to the grocery store yesterday and some darn right ugly and tacky mainstream song with some fool came on the lyrics in the opening line were something like this, "I want to be a Billionaire... oh so very much, to be featured on Oprah and Forbes Magazine".
That just goes to show you how much people think polls and surveys as such have far more credibility. But there is no need to fret unless you're a target of the polls and surveys.
Cities get a wonderful, and I do mean absolutely wonderful opportunity at marketing themselves because of Forbes, its doing wonders in the marketing business and internet is like wildfire, its not just people in the United States seeing these lists but people from various places across the world see it.
Cities like Washington DC, Houston, New York City, Dallas, Raleigh, Omaha, & a few others are creating a revitalizing image for themselves, almost every single Forbes article in the past 3 years since the recession has featured these cities exclusively on various polls and surveys, and those polls and surveys show these things:
- Where in America there are prosperous places
- Where in America people are going (or should be at for opportunities)
- Where in America some great shopping assets are
- Where in America some great places to live are
- Where in America some great dining aspects are
- Everything else from economy, to housing, to tourism is featured by them in their "exclusive" articles
Cities are banking off of the marketing they get from Forbes, from the average and gullible Americans who view Forbes as a top notch credible source. Forbes doesn't even have to be anywhere close to accurate, but people will take considerable thought into it because they inadequately think its credible.
I say congratulations to each and every city on the list, they're selling themselves to the public via Internet Media & Marketing AND also not landing on negative type of lists but rather positive ones.
Kudos to Forbes on Marketing & the cities that are totally enjoying the positive feedback from Internet Poll Giants like Forbes
I don't think there's much benefit to being listed on this particular list. I suppose perhaps the people who live there look at it and think "oh, that just confirms that my neighbors are rich," but then again, they already know that. It doesn't make a difference as far as housing or economy or shopping: most of these "neighborhoods" are pretty small, and don't necessarily even HAVE shopping, businesses, or anything else other than some very wealthy residents. This is just another variation on the richest zip codes/richest towns/richest whatever else; it doesn't mean much, but people do like looking at lists.
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