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Old 04-06-2009, 06:10 PM
 
Location: Pawnee Nation
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Forbes.com ranks Tulsa the fifth most-livable city in the U.S.

With a 4.9 percent income growth and 5.6 percent unemployment rate, Tulsa out-shined cities like Baltimore and Denver.



Oklahoma City ranked sixth.
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Old 04-07-2009, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Maine
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I saw that! I was impressed.

I think it's a joke that they ranked Portland, ME (a little over an hour from where I'm at now) number one! I don't agree at all, but I guess they're just going by stats?
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Old 04-07-2009, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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Great news! I didn't know that Portland, Maine had more than 500,000 people though.

"Forbes.com looked at quality of life measures in the nation's largest continental U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. Forbes.com eliminated areas with populations smaller than 500,000 and assigned points to the remaining metro regions across five data sets: Five-year income growth per household and cost of living from Moody's Economy.com, crime data and leisure index from Sperling's Best Places, and annual unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
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Old 04-07-2009, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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I saw that! I was impressed.

I think it's a joke that they ranked Portland, ME (a little over an hour from where I'm at now) number one! I don't agree at all, but I guess they're just going by stats?
I think Maine is spectacular. Portland appears to be a beautiful city to me and I'm not surprised that it's in the top spot. Of course, I've never been there and this isn't based on first hand experience.
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:11 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Great news! I didn't know that Portland, Maine had more than 500,000 people though.

"Forbes.com looked at quality of life measures in the nation's largest continental U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. Forbes.com eliminated areas with populations smaller than 500,000 and assigned points to the remaining metro regions across five data sets: Five-year income growth per household and cost of living from Moody's Economy.com, crime data and leisure index from Sperling's Best Places, and annual unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
I didn't know it did either. Considering the whole state of Maine only has 1.2 million people, I find that hard to believe. But who knows, weirder things have happened.

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I think Maine is spectacular. Portland appears to be a beautiful city to me and I'm not surprised that it's in the top spot. Of course, I've never been there and this isn't based on first hand experience.
Well, I just don't think there's THAT much to do there. Maybe from a business perspective it's a good place to be. And I'm sure the crime rate is pretty low - I didn't look at the stats they had listed at Forbes.com. I guess maybe I take it for granted because I've been around it all my life. I just don't think it's so spectacular that it ought to be #1, but then again I don't care for Maine as a whole, anyway...
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:13 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Sorry, I've sort of hijacked this thread.


I was really glad to see OKC on that list sice I'm going to be spending plenty of time there over the next few years, maybe even living there.
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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Portland population:

Population (2000) - City 64,249 - Density 3,029.2/sq mi (1,169.6/km2) - Urban 243,537 - Metro 489,343

I guess they come close enough in the metro area to meet the 500K minimum...
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Old 04-08-2009, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Deer Creek/Edmond, OKla
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OKC was also the farthest city west that was on that list...not that is means much just interesting.
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Old 04-08-2009, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma(formerly SoCalif) Originally Mich,
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I heard about that on the radio today (KKIN 97.1)
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Old 05-09-2009, 12:55 AM
 
Location: Between a rock and a hard place.
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TulsaBusiness.com – Tulsa Business online media newspaper Tulsa News ebusiness research journal (http://www.tulsabusiness.com/article.asp?lID=7&sID=8&m1=9&cID=Z&aID=736871302.9 887049.634387.887077.9091848.128&aID2=48790 - broken link)
What do Baltimore and Denver, have in common with Tulsa??? Hmm..I'm just saying. Of course unemployment is lower here, duh, we don't have the sheer volume of people those cities have.
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