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Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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Not surprised at the top 3, DC looking strong as usual, also has the highest percentage of change in income at 4.3%, but sheesh why does NY just has to dominate everything???
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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Well what about income per person instead? I see that Green Bay and New York are disproportionally low and high respectively. I'd be more interested in seeing discretionary income per capita instead, and which cities have residents with money to burn (and I do mean burn!).
Not surprised at the top 3, DC looking strong as usual, also has the highest percentage of change in income at 4.3%, but sheesh why does NY just has to dominate everything???
Its possible that NYC's stats are somewhat overinflated. For instance parts of Central/Southern NJ and Pa have been encaptured unfairly imo by NYC metro.
The Trenton micro region accounts for about $30 B of GDP. Anyone from Trenton or NYC would tell you Trenton has no business being in metro NYC, there are alot of politics at play here.Hunterdon Co NJ which borders PA is one of the top 3 wealthiest counties in the country gets encaptured, it has nothing to so with NYC. The same with PA Pike Co. The Poconos absolutely 100% should not be part of metro NYC.
NYC still dwarfs every other region but it gets more statistical credit than it deserves imo.
This list came out in the business journal papers. Thought it was interesting. Any thoughts?
What a bizarre basis for even compiling a statistical comparison.
I did find it interesting though that the city to post the largest gain in income is Washington, by a long shot. And yet they still want more. But that's another subject for another thread.
But now we can thank our lucky stars that Obama is going to stop the growing vortex from sucking ever greater resources out of the rest of the nation into Washington!
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I hear that!
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