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View Poll Results: Rate these cities/metros
Boston 28 30.11%
San Francisco 45 48.39%
Washington 20 21.51%
Voters: 93. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-09-2013, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Austell, Georgia
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1. San Francisco

2. DC






DEAD LAST: Boston
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Old 08-09-2013, 11:45 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Agreed on this, except I'd probably put Boston on about equal terms with SF in terms of museums.
You could be right.
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Old 08-09-2013, 11:47 AM
 
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% with college degree:

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 48%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 43.9%
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 43.1%

% with graduate or professional degree:

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 22.9%
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 19%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 17.4%

It would be interesting to see the number of Ph.D.'s as well.

Which Metro Areas Have the Most Graduate Degrees?
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Old 08-09-2013, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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% with college degree:

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 48%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 43.9%
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 43.1%

% with graduate or professional degree:

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 22.9%
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 19%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 17.4%

It would be interesting to see the number of Ph.D.'s as well.

Which Metro Areas Have the Most Graduate Degrees?
Good stuff.

Related to that is data from this very interesting article that is actually about LA, but reveals extremely valuable insight on the geography of where the alumni of our most prestigious schools live:

Ivy League Schools, Top 3 Alumni Concentrations

Harvard
1 Boston
2 New York
3 San Francisco

Yale
1 New York
2 San Francisco
3 Boston

Princeton
1 New York
2 San Francisco
3 Washington DC

Brown
1 New York
2 Boston
3 Providence

Columbia
1 New York
2 San Francisco
3 Washington DC

Penn
1 Philadelphia
2 New York
3 Washington DC

Dartmouth
1 Boston
2 New York
3 Washington DC

Cornell
1 New York
2 Ithaca
3 San Francisco

US News Best Engineering Schools, Top 3 Alumni Concentrations

MIT
1 Boston
2 San Francisco
3 New York

Stanford
1 San Francisco
2 New York
3 Los Angeles

CalTech
1 Los Angeles
2 San Francisco
3 New York

Berkeley
1 San Francisco
2 Los Angeles
3 New York

Georgia Tech
1 Atlanta
2 San Francisco
3 Washington DC

Illinois-Urbana
1 Chicago
2 Urbana
3 San Francisco

Michigan
1 Detroit
2 New York
3 San Francisco

Carnegie-Mellon
1 Pittsburgh
2 New York
3 San Francisco

Cornell
1 New York
2 Ithaca
3 San Francisco

Princeton
1 New York
2 Washington DC
3 Boston

Inside LA
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Old 08-09-2013, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Shaw.
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DEAD LAST: Boston
So... third?
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Old 08-09-2013, 05:28 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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I would agree that Boston/NY/SF are the most "brainy" cities... I like the intellectual vibe in all of these. DC is right behind them.
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Old 08-09-2013, 07:10 PM
 
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I know we are all homers on this board but with the museum of fine arts, the isabelle stuart gardner museum, the Fogg art museum, etc. saying Boston does not have top art museums is silly. factoids...Boston last call 2AM. In CA including LA and SF no nude strip clubs that serve booze.
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Old 08-09-2013, 07:10 PM
 
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I would agree that Boston/NY/SF are the most "brainy" cities... I like the intellectual vibe in all of these. DC is right behind them.

All 3 cities have huge wealth gaps. Boston and DC have some of the worst ghettos in the country. SF used to have some of the toughest housing projects in the nation. There are still pockets left today.


I think we're being bias when we look at certain aspects of these cities.
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Old 08-09-2013, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA/London, UK
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All 3 cities have huge wealth gaps. Boston and DC have some of the worst ghettos in the country. SF used to have some of the toughest housing projects in the nation. There are still pockets left today.


I think we're being bias when we look at certain aspects of these cities.
Boston has some of the worst ghettos in the country?????? LMFAO!

Once again spoken like someone who has never been to the city. When you were conducting your survey about Boston was the 2nd question "how bad are Boston's ghettos?" After "Is Boston boring?"

Please share some more findings, you have been quite informative thus far.
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Old 08-09-2013, 07:47 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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All 3 cities have huge wealth gaps. Boston and DC have some of the worst ghettos in the country. SF used to have some of the toughest housing projects in the nation. There are still pockets left today.


I think we're being bias when we look at certain aspects of these cities.
I would like to know about some of the worst ghettos in the country for Boston. How intriguing.
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