Creative Capital of the United States? (living, best, cost, better)
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I don't necessarily think the biggest major cities are the creative capitals. I find smaller cities and college towns have a more palpable creative class.
SF and the Bay has to be up there. Silicon Valley is continuing to change the way we live our lives. SF is the homebase for Apple, Facebook, Craigslist and most big internet companies. Everyone is addicted to Facebook, MacBook Pro's, ipods and iphones.
Creative is somewhat nebulous. If you mean the arts then probably NY or LA (pop culture). If you mean creative in the innovative sense I would say SF Bay region.
NY is pretty creative in fashions and arts and business/finance (for better or worse CDOs, credit default swaps). But, IMO technology has been a far more powerful force in changing society in recent years.
Kiplinger seems to place Durham, North Carolina; San Jose, California; and DC on the tops for what it calls "the creative class." Of really large metro areas I guess they place DC, Boston, and the Bay Area on tops. (In raw number NYC would be tops as it tends to be tops on raw-number of anything.) However I'm not entirely clear what they mean by "creative class."
Tech- Santa Clara county, CA
Art-LA/NYC
Fashion-LA/Nyc
Music- LA/NYC
I would pretty much agree with this. However, I would give fashion to NYC and music to L.A.
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