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Denver, for sure. Its a magnet city for young educated professionals, which helps make it one of the most educated metro areas in the entire country.
Houston is a blue-collar city with, perhaps, the most robust economy in the country for uneducated, unskilled workers. Lots of working class and lower middle class people are lured to Houston by its abundance of well-paying blue-collar and service-sector jobs as well as its ultra-cheap housing--people who would otherwise be unable to afford homes in more expensive cities such as L.A., S.F., Chicago, New York, etc.
Chicago is a homegrown city, so it's more of a healthy mix between educated professionals who relocated there for work-related reasons (mostly from nearby states), blue-collar workers (mostly black natives), scrappy yet successful business owners who never went to school (mostly ethnic natives and immigrants), third-world immigrants, and welfare queens.
Denver, for sure. Its a magnet city for young educated professionals, which helps make it one of the most educated metro areas in the entire country.
Houston is a blue-collar city with, perhaps, the most robust economy in the country for uneducated, unskilled workers. Lots of working class and lower middle class people are lured to Houston by its abundance of well-paying blue-collar and service-sector jobs as well as its ultra-cheap housing--people who would otherwise be unable to afford homes in more expensive cities such as L.A., S.F., Chicago, New York, etc.
Chicago is a homegrown city, so it's more of a healthy mix between educated professionals who relocated there for work-related reasons (mostly from nearby states), blue-collar workers (mostly black natives), scrappy yet successful business owners who never went to school (mostly ethnic natives and immigrants), third-world immigrants, and welfare queens.
One of the cities in bold is not like the other. The one that is not like the other is not that more expensive than Houston. There are upper middle class people moving to Houston but leave it to you to not waste an opportunity.
Denver has a the lowest high-school drop-out rate and highest percentage of people with bachelor degrees, but Chicago has better educational institutions and a highest percentage of people with PhDs.
Either way you slice or dice it, Houston comes in last.
How about cultural opportunities in all three cities?
My impression is that Chicago easily has the highest number of cultural opportunities of the three. Houston is likely second, since it is a much larger city and is a larger immigrant magnet than Denver.
Here are the institutes of higher learning in Houston:
The University of Houston- Tier One Research University- 41,000 students Rice University- Tier One Research University, Ivy League Level Private School- 6,500 students
Texas Southern University- 10,000 students University of St. Thomas - 3,500 students Houston Baptist University- 2,500 students The University of Houston Downtown- 14,000 students
Houston Community College System- 57,000 students Lone Star College System- 90,000 students
Texas Medical Center- includes a number of medical institutes of higher learning. When most med students get assigned an intern, many are sent to Houston to complete their education. Many stay, as it is the hub for the medical field in the United States.
Plus there are numerous trade schools, art schools, culinary schools, etc.
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