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If you want to be that critical, the entire sentence is garbage.
"These too cities are very close in having a very educated workforce in there city.."
Shouldn't it be something like.. These two cities are close when it comes to having an educated workforce. ..?
Anyway, it's probably Boston. I'm curious to know though, what percentage of the educated population was educated in that city vs. the amount that are transplants.
If you want to be that critical, the entire sentence is garbage.
"These too cities are very close in having a very educated workforce in there city.."
Shouldn't it be something like.. These two cities are close when it comes to having an educated workforce. ..?
Anyway, it's probably Boston. I'm curious to know though, what percentage of the educated population was educated in that city vs. the amount that are transplants.
Well, you're correct about the sentence structure itself. But I didn't want to hate (though I'm actually an editor for a living, so ... guess I had an ethical/moral duty to do so and I failed ... )
You can look up Census data to see that Boston wins this, by a couple of percentage points, but what difference does it make whether it's home-grown intelligence or imports? Just curious ... obviously, Atlanta is gonna have more relocated brains. And it could be said that's more complimentary of Atlanta, since smart people don't flock in droves to undesirable places.
Well, you're correct about the sentence structure itself. But I didn't want to hate (though I'm actually an editor for a living, so ... guess I had an ethical/moral duty to do so and I failed ... )
I wasn't correcting you.. I just couldn't resist going in on the OP. I mean look at the irony in that.
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You can look up Census data to see that Boston wins this, by a couple of percentage points, but what difference does it make whether it's home-grown intelligence or imports? Just curious ... obviously, Atlanta is gonna have more relocated brains. And it could be said that's more complimentary of Atlanta, since smart people don't flock in droves to undesirable places.
I was just curious. Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing that stat for every city. Knowing would put a new perspective on why companies relocate where and why do people stay/leave different cities. I want to see if there is a correlation between home-grown knowledge and whether or not the majority of graduates stay or leave and if that affects the amount of jobs available, etc.
I know for a fact that "brain drain" is a real problem in some states (Alabama for example) but fortunately Georgia doesn't have that problem. Not only does it have a recent history of attracting large numbers of highly educated transplants, but also retaining native college graduates.
Well, you're correct about the sentence structure itself. But I didn't want to hate (though I'm actually an editor for a living, so ... guess I had an ethical/moral duty to do so and I failed ... )
You can look up Census data to see that Boston wins this, by a couple of percentage points, but what difference does it make whether it's home-grown intelligence or imports? Just curious ... obviously, Atlanta is gonna have more relocated brains. And it could be said that's more complimentary of Atlanta, since smart people don't flock in droves to undesirable places.
I'm just curious...how did you come up with the statement about Atlanta having more "relocated brains" than Boston? That sounds like more of a theory than a fact.
I'm just curious...how did you come up with the statement about Atlanta having more "relocated brains" than Boston? That sounds like more of a theory than a fact.
Well, it is a theory but a very logical one. Boston's MSA grew up fewer than 200,000 people from 2000-2009; Atlanta's MSA grew by more than 1.2 million. It doesn't take a rocket scientist (pun intended) to acknowledge that many of those people moving to Metro Atlanta are highly educated and RAISING the bar overall, not lowering it. This isn't meant as a slight of Atlanta, just a reality -- it's got a highly educated, diverse white collar work force that in turn attracts more of the same. In sheer numbers, Boston just doesn't match in the relocation quotient. That's why I suggested Boston's brains are more home-grown, while Atlanta's are drawn from around the country and the world (i.e. just look at the CDC or CNN for example, which both draw highly skilled, highly professional people to Atlanta for very specific jobs that are hardly found in such mass quantities in similar sized cities.)
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