Battle of "number five" US cities:SF, Houston or Boston? (live, best)

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Otherwise, why does Pennsylvania only have 2 high schools with an average SAT score of 1800+ while California has 33?

Even if we were to accept the SAT as a valid metric to compare academic quality, the fact that not every student takes the SAT in every state makes that ranking system fundamentally invalid. It is far from an apples-to-apples comparison when you can have wildly different SAT participation rates between schools.

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

In fact, California's own proficiency standards are ranked 5th highest in the nation:
Few States Set World-Class Standards - Education Next : Education Next

Again, the NAEP, which is what the ranking you've provided is predicated upon, has been shown to be extremely controversial and flawed in its assessment:

" NAEP’s benchmarks, including the proficiency standard, evolved out of a process only marginally better than throwing darts at the wall. That’s a troubling conclusion to reach in light of the expenditure of more than a billion dollars on NAEP over 40-odd years by the U.S. Department of Education and its predecessors. For all that money, one would expect that NAEP could defend its benchmarks of Basic, Proficient, and Advanced by pointing to rock-solid studies of the validity of its benchmarks and the science underlying them. But it can’t. "

NAEP: A flawed benchmark producing the same old story - The Washington Post

I will be the first person to tell you that it is difficult to truly objectively compare academic standards between different states, as there are many complicating factors.

[qworldorder]

Originally Posted by RadicalAtheist

My guess is Q forgot or didn't realize the average SAT thing was also posted in that other thread and that he thought your argument in that other thread was CA > MA re: k-12 and so the avg SAT thing would run counter to your point since MA is higher than CA.. but your argument was really something along the lines of CA = MA re: k-12 and Bay Area = or slightly > than Boston re: k-12.

This. My bad for jumping in without context. I had been skimming the thread with the back and forth about Asian test scores and must've missed something vital. Plus, I was at the bar at my alma mater. So yeaa...

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by thedirtypirate

18Monty you do realize that list isn't an actually a ranking of schools based on academic quality? Like you are trying to imply UC San Deigo is a better overall school than Penn?

UC SB is more on par with Leigh (Both great schools) but here is the actual ranking:


National University | Rankings | Data | US News | page 2

Oh and btw sometimes overall rankings are very meaningless because programs vary greatly internally within an institution.

Im not implying anything. The USNews Natl ranking is only undergrad but their world ranking combines undergrad and grad schools, it just so happens UCSD is a science and research heavyweight.

In fact, the University of California system is clearly the best public university system in the world based on its stellar performance in just about every world ranking.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by Duderino

Even if we were to accept the SAT as a valid metric to compare academic quality, the fact that not every student takes the SAT in every state makes that ranking system fundamentally invalid. It is far from an apples-to-apples comparison when you can have wildly different SAT participation rates between schools.




Again, the NAEP, which is what the ranking you've provided is predicated upon, has been shown to be extremely controversial and flawed in its assessment:

" NAEP’s benchmarks, including the proficiency standard, evolved out of a process only marginally better than throwing darts at the wall. That’s a troubling conclusion to reach in light of the expenditure of more than a billion dollars on NAEP over 40-odd years by the U.S. Department of Education and its predecessors. For all that money, one would expect that NAEP could defend its benchmarks of Basic, Proficient, and Advanced by pointing to rock-solid studies of the validity of its benchmarks and the science underlying them. But it can’t. "

NAEP: A flawed benchmark producing the same old story - The Washington Post

I will be the first person to tell you that it is difficult to truly objectively compare academic standards between different states, as there are many complicating factors.

Yes, NAEPs own methods and testing is highly questionable, but their research into individual state standards are not.

And I agree, there is no easy answer. I was simply reminding Walnut that a CA education is a bit better than he seems to think. Lol

[Trafalgar Law]

Originally Posted by RightonWalnut

Hate to Cherry pick but the Philly numbers are actually significantly off. Philadelphia has 41 fortune 1000 companies.

Fortune 1000 Companies By State ~ GIS Lounge

New York City: 114
Chicago: 64
San Francisco: 47
Los Angeles: 45
Philadelphia: 41
Washington DC: 37
Houston: 37
Dallas: 33
Minneapolis: 31
Boston: 26
Detroit: 24
Atlanta: 23
Cleveland: 23
St. Louis: 21
Denver: 15
Seattle: 14
Phoenix: 13
Cincinnati: 12

No.

This is the VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH of your link:

Listed below are the Fortune 1000 companies listed by state for the year 2000. Each records lists the company name, rank for the year 200, Headquarters location (city, state), ZIP Code, and metro area.

From the exact link you gave us, this: Fortune 1000 Companies By State for the Year 2000 ~ GIS Lounge

Were you aware that you were using 15 year old data from the year 2000?

Here is a 2014 list, since 2014 is the most recent year available for Fortune 1000 data. I will exclude New York, don't have the type of time to organize over 115 of these.

Greater Chicago: 65 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0030: Boeing (Chicago)
- 0037: Walgreen Co. (Deerfield)
- 0041: State Farm Insurance Cos. (Bloomington)
- 0078: United Continental Holdings, Inc. (Chicago)
- 0087: Sears Holdings Corporation (Hoffman Estates)
- 0089: Mondelez International, Inc. (Deerfield)
- 0092: The Allstate Corporation (Northbrook)
- 0106: McDonald's Corporation (Oak Brook)
- 0119: Exelon Corporation (Chicago)
- 0133: US Foods, Inc. (Rosemont)
- 0136: Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park)
- 0152: AbbVie Inc. (North Chicago)
- 0156: Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (Northfield)
- 0171: Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview)
- 0189: Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield)
- 0259: Navistar International Corporation (Lisle)
- 0265: CDW Corporation (Vernon Hills)
- 0268: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (Chicago)
- 0295: W.W. Grainger, Inc. (Lake Forest)
- 0296: Discover Financial Services (Riverwoods)
- 0301: Dover Corporation (Downers Grove)
- 0312: Motorola Solutions, Inc. (Shaumburg)
- 0338: Tenneco Inc. (Lake Forest)
- 0412: Ingredion Incorporated (Westchester)
- 0420: Anixter International Inc. (Glenview)
- 0448: NiSource Inc. (Merrillville)
- 0450: Integrys Energy Group, Inc. (Chicago)
- 0463: CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield)
- 0465: Old Republic International Corporation (Chicago)
- 0488: United Stationers Inc. (Chicago)
- 0490: LKQ Corporation (Chicago)
- 0504: Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (Chicago)
- 0552: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (Chicago)
- 0574: Northern Trust Corporation (Chicago)
- 0582: Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (Glenview)
- 0584: Hyatt Hotels Corporation (Chicago)
- 0587: Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (Deerfield)
- 0606: Hospira, Inc. (Lake Forest)
- 0608: Hillshire Brands Company (Chicago)
- 0613: Brunswick Corporation (Lake Forest)
- 0640: Packaging Corporation of America (Lake Forest)
- 0645: Molex Incorporated (Lisle)
- 0650: USG Corporation (Chicago)
- 0663: Ryerson Holding Corporation (Chicago)
- 0668: COUNTRY Financial (Bloomington)
- 0673: Hub Group, Inc. (Oak Brook)
- 0694: Snap-on Incorporated (Kenosha)
- 0706: Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Itasca)
- 0738: CME Group Inc. (Chicago)
- 0744: Tribune Company (Chicago)
- 0765: Ventas, Inc. (Chicago)
- 0793: Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (Bolingbrook)
- 0816: Groupon, Inc. (Chicago)
- 0821: General Growth Properties, Inc. (Chicago)
- 0824: Beam Suntory Inc. (Deerfield)
- 0830: AptarGroup, Inc. (Crystal Lake)
- 0834: Equity Residential (Chicago)
- 0861: Kemper Corporation (Chicago)
- 0862: Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. (Hoffman Estates)
- 0890: TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (Oak Brook)
- 0932: Stericycle, Inc. (Lake Forest)
- 0936: AAR Corp. (Wood Dale)
- 0964: IDEX Corporation (Lake Forest)
- 0969: Sirva, Inc. (Oakbrook Terrace)
- 0978: DeVry Education Group Inc. (Downers Grove)

Greater San Francisco Bay Area: 58 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0003: Chevron (San Ramon)
- 0005: Apple (Cupertino)
- 0015: McKesson (San Francisco)
- 0017: Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto)
- 0029: Wells Fargo (San Francisco)
- 0046: Google (Mountain View)
- 0053: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara)
- 0055: Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose)
- 0067: Safeway Inc. (Pleasanton)
- 0082: Oracle Corporation (Redwood City)
- 0178: The Gap, Inc. (San Francisco)
- 0180: eBay Inc. (San Jose)
- 0183: PG&E Corporation (San Francisco)
- 0238: Visa Inc. (Foster City)
- 0250: Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Foster City)
- 0256: URS Corporation (San Francisco)
- 0260: Synnex Corporation (Fremont)
- 0277: Ross Stores, Inc. (Dublin)
- 0337: Franklin Resources, Inc. (San Mateo)
- 0341: Facebook, Inc. (Menlo Park)
- 0346: Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. (South San Francisco)
- 0350: Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara)
- 0378: Symantec Corporation (Mountain View)
- 0384: Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara)
- 0411: NetApp, Inc. (Sunnyvale)
- 0422: SanDisk Corporation (Milpitas)
- 0432: Sanmina (San Jose)
- 0451: The Clorox Company (Oakland)
- 0459: The Charles Schwab Corporation (San Francisco)
- 0474: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale)
- 0520: Avaya Inc. (Santa Clara)
- 0521: Levi Strauss & Co. (San Francisco)
- 0522: Yahoo! Inc. (Sunnyvale)
- 0523: Juniper Networks, Inc. (Sunnyvale)
- 0544: Intuit Inc. (Mountain View)
- 0560: Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (San Francisco)
- 0563: Netflix, Inc. (Los Gatos)
- 0577: Robert Half International Inc. (Menlo Park)
- 0589: NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara)
- 0599: salesforce.com, inc. (San Francisco)
- 0601: Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose)
- 0620: Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City)
- 0647: Lam Research Corporation (Fremont)
- 0737: Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto)
- 0762: KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas)
- 0835: SunPower Corporation (San Jose)
- 0856: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (San Jose)
- 0870: LSI Corporation (San Jose)
- 0892: Trimble Navigation Limited (Sunnyvale)
- 0897: Autodesk, Inc. (San Rafael)
- 0900: Granite Construction Incorporated (Watsonville)
- 0901: Intuitive Surgical, Inc (Sunnyvale)
- 0911: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (San Jose)
- 0919: Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose)
- 0930: Equinix, Inc. (Redwood City)
- 0939: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (Hercules)
- 0965: Tesla Motors, Inc. (Palo Alto)
- 0979: Synopsys, Inc. (Mountain View)

Greater Houston: 52 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0006: Phillips 66 (Houston)
- 0047: ConocoPhillips (Houston)
- 0056: Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Houston)
- 0063: Sysco Corporation (Houston)
- 0070: Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (Houston)
- 0103: Halliburton Company (Houston)
- 0131: National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (Houston)
- 0132: Baker Hughes Incorporated (Houston)
- 0179: Apache Corporation (Houston)
- 0188: Marathon Oil Corporation (Houston)
- 0202: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (The Woodlands)
- 0203: EOG Resources, Inc. (Houston)
- 0206: Kinder Morgan, Inc. (Houston)
- 0207: Waste Management, Inc. (Houston)
- 0286: Cameron International Corporation (Houston)
- 0307: Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (Houston)
- 0333: CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (Houston)
- 0360: KBR, Inc. (Houston)
- 0368: FMC Technologies, Inc. (Houston)
- 0395: Targa Resources Corp. (Houston)
- 0396: Quanta Services, Inc. (Houston)
- 0414: Calpine Corporation (Houston)
- 0461: Spectra Energy Corp (Houston)
- 0478: MRC Global Inc. (Houston)
- 0485: Buckeye Partners, L.P. (Houston)
- 0491: Noble Energy, Inc. (Houston)
- 0517: Genesis Energy, L.P. (Houston)
- 0534: Superior Energy Services, Inc. (Houston)
- 0558: Nexeo Solutions Holdings, LLC (The Woodlands)
- 0611: Adams Resources & Energy, Inc. (Houston)
- 0624: Westlake Chemical Corporation (Houston)
- 0628: Oil States International, Inc. (Houston)
- 0674: Southwestern Energy Company (Houston)
- 0685: Oceaneering International, Inc. (Houston)
- 0702: Exterran Holdings, Inc. (Houston)
- 0710: American National Insurance Company (Galveston)
- 0724: Dresser-Rand Group Inc. (Houston)
- 0728: Crown Castle International Corp. (Houston)
- 0780: Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (Houston)
- 0790: Newfield Exploration Company (The Woodlands)
- 0823: Service Corporation International (Houston)
- 0827: HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Houston)
- 0836: Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (Angleton)
- 0846: The Men's Wearhouse, Inc. (Houston)
- 0878: Linn Energy, LLC (Houston)
- 0902: Insperity, Inc. (Kingwood)
- 0905: Kirby Corporation (Houston)
- 0915: BMC Software, Inc. (Houston)
- 0947: Willbros Group, Inc. (Houston)
- 0990: EP Energy Corporation (Houston)
- 0993: Waste Connections, Inc. (The Woodlands)
- 0994: Stewart Information Services Corporation (Houston)

Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex: 40 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0002: Exxon Mobil (Irving)
- 0011: AT&T (Dallas)
- 0054: Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (Dallas)
- 0109: Fluor Corporation (Irving)
- 0112: American Airlines Group Inc. (Fort Worth)
- 0139: Kimberly-Clark Corporation (Irving)
- 0145: HollyFrontier Corporation (Dallas)
- 0160: Southwest Airlines Co. (Dallas)
- 0227: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas)
- 0229: Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Dallas)
- 0235: J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (Plano)
- 0285: Dean Foods Company (Dallas)
- 0305: GameStop Corp. (Grapevine)
- 0370: Commercial Metals Company (Irving)
- 0399: Celanese Corporation (Irving)
- 0418: D.R. Horton, Inc. (Fort Worth)
- 0430: Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc (Plano)
- 0438: Energy Future Holdings Corp. (Dallas)
- 0501: Flowserve Corporation (Irving)
- 0527: Neiman Marcus Group LTD Inc. (Dallas)
- 0542: Michaels Stores, Inc. (Irving)
- 0559: Trinity Industries, Inc. (Dallas)
- 0571: Alliance Data Systems Corporation (Plano)
- 0605: Pioneer Natural Resources Company (Irving)
- 0612: Atmos Energy Corporation (Dallas)
- 0622: Torchmark Corporation (McKinney)
- 0643: Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (Denton)
- 0657: RadioShack Corporation (Fort Worth)
- 0689: Lennox International Inc. (Richardson)
- 0691: Fossil Group, Inc. (Richardson)
- 0711: Rent-A-Center, Inc. (Plano)
- 0712: Sabre Corporation (Southlake)
- 0761: Brinker International, Inc. (Dallas)
- 0789: Cinemark Holdings, Inc.(Plano)
- 0810: Comerica Incorporated (Dallas)
- 0829: Regency Energy Partners LP (Dallas)
- 0831: Denbury Resources Inc. (Plano)
- 0982: Valhi, Inc. (Dallas)
- 0986: Crosstex Energy, Inc. (Dallas)
- 0987: Primoris Services Corporation (Dallas)

Greater Los Angeles: 38 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0061: The Walt Disney Company (Burbank)
- 0069: Ingram Micro Inc. (Santa Ana)
- 0098: DIRECTV (El Segundo)
- 0116: Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Los Angeles)
- 0154: Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks)
- 0187: Western Digital Corporation (Irvine)
- 0222: Edison International (Rosemead)
- 0237: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena)
- 0254: Health Net, Inc. (Woodland Hills)
- 0299: Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (Los Angeles)
- 0328: Broadcom Corporation (Irvine)
- 0332: AECOM Technology Corporation (Los Angeles)
- 0333: Pacific Life (Los Angeles)
- 0353: Spectrum Group International, Inc. (Irvine)
- 0354: Oaktree Capital Group, LLC (Los Angeles)
- 0363: CBRE Group, Inc. (Los Angeles)
- 0393: Molina Healthcare, Inc. (Long Beach)
- 0398: Avery Dennison Corporation (Glendale)
- 0403: Mattel, Inc. (El Segundo)
- 0404: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (Beverley Hills)
- 0408: Allergan, Inc. (Irvine)
- 0499: First American Financial Corporation (Santa Ana)
- 0539: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Santa Monica)
- 0586: Tutor Perini Corporation (Sylmar)
- 0615: Stater Bros. Holdings Inc. (San Bernardino)
- 0635: Unified Grocers, Inc. (Commerce)
- 0767: Mercury General Corporation (Los Angeles)
- 0805: Tetra Tech, Inc. (Pasadena)
- 0817: Guess?, Inc. (Los Angeles)
- 0848: Apria Healthcare Group Inc. (Lake Forest)
- 0875: Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (Thousand Oaks)
- 0903: Monster Beverage Corporation (Corona)
- 0933: The Ryland Group, Inc. (Westlake Village)
- 0941: HCP, Inc. (Long Beach)
- 0948: KB Home (Los Angeles)
- 0959: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (Irvine)
- 0974: Public Storage (Glendale)
- 0988: Standard Pacific Corp. (Irvine)

Greater Washington DC-Baltimore Metroplex: 37 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0013: Fannie Mae (District of Columbia)
- 0032: Freddie Mac (McLean)
- 0059: Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda)
- 0099: General Dynamics Corporation (Falls Church)
- 0122: Northrop Grumman Corporation (Falls Church)
- 0124: Capital One Financial Corporation (McLean)
- 0149: Danaher Corporation (District of Columbia)
- 0174: The AES Corporation (Arlington)
- 0185: Computer Sciences Corporation (Falls Church)
- 0219: Marriott International, Inc. (Bethesda)
- 0289: Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (McLean)
- 0442: Leidos Holdings Inc. (Reston)
- 0443: Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. (McLean)
- 0460: Discovery Communications, Inc. (Silver Spring)
- 0477: Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (Bethesda)
- 0481: Gannett Co., Inc. (McLean)
- 0495: NII Holdings, Inc. (Reston)
- 0510: Exelis Inc. (McLean)
- 0554: The Carlyle Group L.P. (District of Columbia)
- 0561: Pepco Holdings, Inc. (District of Columbia)
- 0564: Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Arlington)
- 0578: NVR, Inc. (Reston)
- 0579: Colfax Corporation (Fulton)
- 0591: McCormick & Company, Incorporated (Sparks)
- 0592: Science Applications International Corp (McLean)
- 0614: Graham Holdings Company (District of Columbia)
- 0637: CACI International Inc. (Arlington)
- 0658: T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (Baltimore)
- 0684: Delta Tucker Holdings, Inc. (McLean)
- 0716: W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia)
- 0806: Legg Mason, Inc. (Baltimore)
- 0849: WGL Holdings, Inc. (District of Columbia)
- 0877: Under Armour, Inc. (Baltimore)
- 0885: ManTech International Corporation (Fairfax)
- 0906: Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (Herndon)
- 0952: Ciena Corporation (Hanover)
- 0975: American Capital Agency Corp. (Bethesda)

Greater Boston: 33 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0012: CVS Caremark (Woonsocket)
- 0076: Liberty Mutual Holding Company Inc. (Boston)
- 0108: The TJX Companies, Inc. (Framingham)
- 0126: Raytheon Company (Waltham)
- 0127: Staples, Inc. (Framingham)
- 0128: EMC Corporation (Hopkinton)
- 0146: Global Partners LP (Waltham)
- 0215: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham)
- 0228: Textron Inc. (Providence)
- 0275: State Street Corporation (Boston)
- 0367: Boston Scientific Corporation (Natick)
- 0375: Biogen Idec Inc. (Cambridge)
- 0427: United Natural Foods, Inc. (Providence)
- 0514: The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (Worcester)
- 0536: Sprague Resources LP (Portsmouth)
- 0557: Factory Mutual Insurance Company (Johnston)
- 0588: LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Boston)
- 0597: Hasbro, Inc. (Pawtucket)
- 0656: Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell)
- 0662: Cabot Corporation (Boston)
- 0676: American Tower Corporation (Boston)
- 0725: Alere Inc. (Waltham)
- 0726: Iron Mountain Incorporated (Boston)
- 0799: Analog Devices, Inc. (Norwood)
- 0841: Hologic, Inc. (Bedford)
- 0893: Nortek, Inc. (Providence)
- 0912: PC Connection, Inc. (Merrimack)
- 0917: Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (Prides Crossing)
- 0920: PerkinElmer, Inc. (Waltham)
- 0927: Boston Properties, Inc. (Boston)
- 0970: Amica Mutual Insurance Co. (Lincoln)
- 0972: PAREXEL International Corporation (Waltham)
- 0998: Waters Corporation (Milford)

Greater Philadelphia: 29 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0028: AmerisourceBergen (Chesterbrook)
- 0044: Comcast (Philadelphia)
- 0086: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE)
- 0209: Aramark Holdings Corporation (Philadelphia)
- 0232: Lincoln National Corporation (Radnor)
- 0313: Crown Holdings, Inc. (Philadelphia)
- 0315: Campbell Soup Company (Camden)
- 0324: Universal Health Services, Inc. (King of Prussia)
- 0362: UGI Corporation (King of Prussia)
- 0417: SLM Corporation (Newark, DE)
- 0498: Airgas, Inc. (Radnor)
- 0551: Burlington Stores, Inc. (Burlington, NJ)
- 0581: FMC Corporation (Philadelphia)
- 0583: VWR Funding, Inc. (Radnor)
- 0585: SunGard Data Systems Inc. (Wayne)
- 0633: Triumph Group, Inc. (Berwyn)
- 0649: AMETEK, Inc. (Berwyn)
- 0664: Unisys Corporation (Blue Bell)
- 0715: Urban Outfitters, Inc. (Philadelphia)
- 0723: PHH Corporation (Mount Laurel, NJ)
- 0740: Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Wyomissing)
- 0745: American Water Works Company, Inc. (Voorhees, NJ)
- 0766: Endo International plc (Malvern)
- 0775: Chemtura Corporation (Philadelphia)
- 0791: Toll Brothers, Inc. (Horsham)
- 0868: Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (Malvern)
- 0896: EnerSys (Reading)
- 0899: Carpenter Technology Corporation (Wyomissing)
- 0945: The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack (Philadelphia)

Greater Atlanta: 28 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0033: Home Depot (Atlanta)
- 0050: United Parcel Service (Atlanta)
- 0058: The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta)
- 0081: Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0170: The Southern Company (Atlanta)
- 0205: Genuine Parts Company (Atlanta)
- 0261: First Data Corporation (Atlanta)
- 0262: AGCO Corporation (Duluth)
- 0293: Rock-Tenn Company (Norcross)
- 0314: SunTrust Banks, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0317: HD Supply Holdings, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0348: Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0357: Mohawk Industries, Inc. (Calhoun)
- 0423: NCR Corporation (Duluth)
- 0436: Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0472: Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (Duluth)
- 0524: Axiall Corporation (Atlanta)
- 0532: AGL Resources Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0547: Graphic Packaging Holding Company (Atlanta)
- 0644: ARRIS Group, Inc. (Suwanee)
- 0732: Exide Technologies (Milton)
- 0798: Carter's, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0867: Global Payments Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0883: Equifax Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0907: Aaron's, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0931: BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0951: Acuity Brands, Inc. (Atlanta)
- 0955: Ocwen Financial Corporation (Atlanta)

Greater Minneapolis/Saint Paul: 26 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0014: UnitedHealth Group (Minnetonka)
- 0036: Target (Minneapolis)
- 0060: Best Buy Co., Inc. (Richfield)
- 0062: CHS Inc. (Inver Grove Height)
- 0094: Supervalu Inc. (Eden Prairie)
- 0101: 3M Company (Saint Paul)
- 0140: U.S. Bancorp (Minneapolis)
- 0159: General Mills, Inc. (Minneapolis)
- 0173: Medtronic, Inc. (Minneapolis)
- 0199: Land O'Lakes, Inc. (Arden Hills)
- 0213: Ecolab Inc. (Saint Paul)
- 0220: C. H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (Eden Prairie)
- 0249: Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (Minneapolis)
- 0257: Xcel Energy Inc. (Minneapolis)
- 0283: The Mosaic Company (Plymouth)
- 0335: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (Minneapolis)
- 0462: St. Jude Medical, Inc. (Saint Paul)
- 0595: The Valspar Corporation (Minneapolis)
- 0621: Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina)
- 0641: Securian Financial Group, Inc. (Saint Paul)
- 0642: Patterson Companies, Inc. (Saint Paul)
- 0858: Donaldson Company, Inc. (Minneapolis)
- 0938: Regis Corporation (Edina)
- 0957: H.B. Fuller Company (Saint Paul)
- 0961: The Toro Company (Bloomington)
- 0985: Michael Foods Group, Inc (Minnetonka)

Greater Denver: 19 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0138: Arrow Electronics, Inc (Englewood)
- 0204: DISH Network Corporation (Englewood)
- 0230: DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (Denver)
- 0246: Liberty Interactive Corporation (Englewood)
- 0321: Ball Corporation (Broomfield)
- 0327: Newmont Mining Corporation (Greenwood Village)
- 0413: Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Broomfield)
- 0437: CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd. (Englewood)
- 0458: The Western Union Company (Englewood)
- 0764: Whiting Petroleum Corporation (Denver)
- 0891: SM Energy Company (Denver)
- 0971: Cimarex Energy Co. (Denver)
- 0580: Molson Coors Brewing Company (Denver)
- 0607: Liberty Media Corporation (Englewood)
- 0630: Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (Greenwood Village)
- 0686: EchoStar Corporation (Englewood)
- 0696: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (Denver)
- 0729: DCP Midstream Partners, LP (Denver)
- 0739: QEP Resources, Inc. (Denver)

Greater Detroit: 18 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0007: General Motors (Detroit)
- 0008: Ford Motor (Dearborn)
- 0165: TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (Livonia)
- 0177: Lear Corporation (Southfield)
- 0194: Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (Bloomfield Hills)
- 0273: Ally Financial Inc. (Detroit)
- 0290: DTE Energy Company (Detroit)
- 0310: Autoliv, Inc. (Auburn Hills)
- 0323: Masco Corporation (Taylor)
- 0351: Visteon Corporation (Van Buren Township)
- 0352: BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills)
- 0446: PulteGroup, Inc. (Bloomfield Hills)
- 0464: Con-way Inc. (Ann Arbor)
- 0468: Kelly Services, Inc. (Troy)
- 0634: Meritor Inc. (Troy)
- 0698: American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (Detroit)
- 0714: Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. (Novi)
- 0944: Tower International, Inc. (Livonia)

Greater Seattle: 15 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0019: Costco Wholesale (Isaqquah)
- 0034: Microsoft (Redmond)
- 0035: Amazon.com (Seattle)
- 0169: PACCAR Inc (Bellevue)
- 0196: Starbucks Corporation (Seattle)
- 0224: Nordstrom, Inc. (Seattle)
- 0320: Weyerhaeuser Company (Federal Way)
- 0425: Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. (Seattle)
- 0482: Alaska Air Group, Inc. (Seattle)
- 0515: Expedia, Inc. (Bellevue)
- 0703: Puget Energy, Inc. (Bellevue)
- 0884: Outerwall Inc. (Bellevue)
- 0934: Symetra Financial Corporation (Bellevue)
- 0977: Esterline Technologies Corporation (Bellevue)
- 0981: Emeritus Corporation (Seattle)

Greater Miami/Fort Lauderdale: 13 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0071: World Fuel Services Corporation (Miami)
- 0162: AutoNation, Inc. (Fort Lauderdale)
- 0191: NextEra Energy, Inc. (Juno Beach)
- 0248: Office Depot, Inc. (Boca Raton)
- 0356: Jarden Corporation (Boca Raton)
- 0406: Ryder System, Inc. (Miami)
- 0431: Lennar Corporation (Miami)
- 0567: MasTec, Inc. (Coral Gables)
- 0627: Watsco, Inc. (Miami)
- 0659: B/E Aerospace, Inc. (Wellington)
- 0679: ADT Corporation (Boca Raton)
- 0741: Citrix Systems, Inc. (Fort Lauderdale)
- 0928: MEDNAX, Inc. (Sunrise)

Greater Phoenix: 13 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0117: Avnet, Inc. (Phoenix)
- 0142: Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (Phoenix)
- 0325: Republic Services, Inc. (Phoenix)
- 0376: PetSmart, Inc. (Phoenix)
- 0483: Insight Enterprises, Inc. (Tempe)
- 0593: Swift Transportation Company (Phoenix)
- 0638: Apollo Education Group, Inc. (Phoenix)
- 0667: Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (Phoenix)
- 0680: First Solar, Inc. (Tempe)
- 0733: Amkor Technology, Inc. (Chandler)
- 0771: ON Semiconductor Corporation (Phoenix)
- 0857: Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (Phoenix)
- 0880: Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (Scottsdale)

Greater Tampa Bay Area: 9 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0104: Publix Super Markets, Inc. (Lakeland)
- 0111: Tech Data Corporation (Clearwater)
- 0155: Jabil Circuit, Inc. (Saint Petersburg)
- 0294: WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (Tampa)
- 0537: Raymond James Financial, Inc. (Saint Petersburg)
- 0590: Bloomin' Brands, Inc. (Tampa)
- 0670: HSN, Inc. (Saint Petersburg)
- 0693: Roper Industries, Inc. (Sarasota)
- 0759: TECO Energy, Inc. (Tampa)

Greater San Diego: 5 Fortune 500 Corporations
- 0120: Qualcomm Incorporated (San Diego)
- 0267: Sempra Energy (San Diego)
- 0651: CareFusion Corporation (San Diego)
- 0747: Leap Wireless International, Inc. (San Diego)
- 0888: PriceSmart, Inc. (San Diego)

Greater Portland: 4 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0115: Nike, Inc. (Beaverton)
- Precision Castparts Corp. (Portland)
- 0755: StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. (Portland)
- 0803: Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. (Portland)

Greater Orlando: 2 Fortune 1000 Corporations
- 0319: Darden Restaurants, Inc. (Orlando)
- 0792: Tupperware Brands Corporation (Orlando)

Fortune 1000 Companies List for 2014 - Geolounge

[thedirtypirate]

^Good find. I noticed he posted the wrong link before. Interesting how much damage the corporate tax rate has done to the Philly metro over the course of a decade and a half. Also not to take anything away from the "cool factor" of having a Corpration HQ'd in your town, but most of these places (especially the really huge companies) have corporate offices and hubs in a lot of different metros.

[Trafalgar Law]

It took a really long time to put it together.

[RightonWalnut]

Originally Posted by Red John

No.

This is the VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH of your link:

Were you aware that you were using 15 year old data from the year 2000?

Here is a 2014 list, since 2014 is the most recent year available for Fortune 1000 data. I will exclude New York, don't have the type of time to organize over 115 of these.


Fortune 1000 Companies List for 2014 - Geolounge

Wow, thank you for catching that! I must have clicked on the wrong link. Pretty sad how many large companies Philly has lost. Delaware has gone from 4 Fortune 1000s to 2. New Jersey side of the metro has gone from 6 to 4. Pennsylvania side of the metro has gone from 31 to 25.

Exactly what Thedirtypirate said, this truly indicates how much the corporate tax in these states are driving companies out of the area or halting their growth.

[InternetUser2015]

People vilify standardized tests, then turn around and label school districts as 'good schools' or 'bad schools' based on standardized test scores.

So if you're against standardized testing, then you shouldn't be parading those statistics around.

Make up your minds.

[InternetUser2015]

Originally Posted by anonelitist

You're really grasping at straws. You're the only one making your point, and your point is only making sense to you. I've got to guess that at most, you've been to downtown Denver and between DIA and downtown, you were unclear on what side of town you were on. Denver is one of the most unconstrained cities, geographically, in the entire country. As such, it really really sprawls in all directions. The city itself is actually very similar to Atlanta in a lot of ways, though in my opinion it's an improvement on what is a smaller version of Atlanta. Aurora is East of downtown. That direction is seeing explosive growth with a huge new hospital, lots of apartments, and a new Gaylord resort. The biggest constraint on western cities is not geography, but water rights.

And while Philly is "inland" because it has some Jersey between it and the actual coast, for all intents and purposes to the rest of the country, along with DC to lesser extent but to an extent, it's "east coast", and when people think of Philly, they don't think "land-locked" or "inland" like Chicago, Saint Louis, Dallas, Atlanta, etc etc.

Really I don't know why we're having this huge debate about why Philadelphia is cheaper than Boston. There is absolutely no reason to get defensive about it. We're not talking Detroit here, we're talking Chicago, Houston, Denver, Portland pricing here. It's a solid group of cities. If a city can be safe, offer amenities and culture, good transit, quality of life, good schools, etc AND be cheap, that just means it hasn't been fully discovered yet. Usually there is one thing on that list that is failing for a city to be cheap, but in some cases a city is just highly undervalued or just newly amazing and so undiscovered. Either way, it's really not a good thing when a city becomes outrageously expensive...can often mean a place is way overvalued and these titanics of industry haven't quite yet made the turn to cheaper alternatives.

No point in being on the defensive about why a place is less expensive.

A city of 1.5 million people and metro area of 6 million isn't fully discovered yet?