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DC falling 5th does not surprise me at all!!! 4 years ago my I lived in Centreville - which is part of Fairfax County. It is at least 30 min outside of Washington DC (with no traffic - HA!) and crammed full of people. Tons of TH,APT and SFH, not just a few fancy houses with acres of land.
Well, I remember researching places to move and found a reputable economic information (can't remember my source) and found that the average income was around $80K in my little section of Fairfax County!!!! According to this report, the average in the area was 50K on 2006. Exactly why I left because I did not make close to that in order to support my family.
I find it very interesting that Hawaii is way down there on the bottom. Everyone says how expensive it is to live there though.
There is certainly no "conspiracy" to keep New York City at the "top of the heap." As urban sprawl continues to worsen in Greater NYC, the boundaries of its CSA have likewise continued to grow as people on the exurban frontier (which is now as far west as Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton, PA) are commuting in larger and larger percentages back into NYC and rely on it for nightlife, culture, etc. This is why the CSA of NYC now includes parts of NY, NJ, CT, and PA, and this is likely to eventually swallow up such smaller fringe MSAs as Newburgh, NY, Danbury, CT, and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA. Let's not forget that geographically, the Los Angeles CSA sprawls out much further than the NYC CSA. Where I live on the furthest western frontier, we are still just two hours (about 120 miles) from Manhattan, so more and more people are now commuting into the city for work. I'm sure there are parts of the LA CSA that are over two hours from Downtown LA. It's a shame that so many in my area now commute four hours each day to work, but that's what happens when the cost-of-living closer to Manhattan has skyrocketed so high that it has become very cost-prohibitive for young families to afford to purchase a home within an hour's radius of NYC. This is why it is estimated that roughly 30,000 more residents have moved into Northeastern Pennsylvania from Greater NYC just since 2000!
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Ye haw! My city (Midland) is number 15 in the nation and highest in Texas! I posted this info in another forum and there was conspiracy talk there too. Someone had implied that for some reason the federal government was trying to make Midland look good at the expense of the other cities in Texas. Midland also scores well in terms of low crime, a clean environment, and low unemployment (Midland consistently has the lowest rate in the state), it may very well be the most underrated city in Texas.
Midland may be underrated but its per capita income is not.
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Ye haw! My city (Midland) is number 15 in the nation and highest in Texas! I posted this info in another forum and there was conspiracy talk there too. Someone had implied that for some reason the federal government was trying to make Midland look good at the expense of the other cities in Texas. Midland also scores well in terms of low crime, a clean environment, and low unemployment (Midland consistently has the lowest rate in the state), it may very well be the most underrated city in Texas.
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Midland also scores well in terms of low crime, a clean environment, and low unemployment (Midland consistently has the lowest rate in the state), it may very well be the most underrated city in Texas.
