Most hi-tech cities in the U.S. (move to, ranking)

[SEAandATL]

Do you ever wonder how technologically advanced and futuristic your city is? Well, here is a ranking:

How Did Your City Do? - Popular Science

[Minnehahapolitan]

Minneapolis - Yet again.
Burlington - You bet the Silicon Valley, kudos.
Poughkeepsie - Sorry

[downtown1]

Interesting study. Why does NY rank so low?

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by downtown1

Interesting study. Why does NY rank so low?

I wondered that myself. I bet Queens and Staten Island brought down their average. Manhattan alone would certainly make the top 10.

[SEAandATL]

I was surprised with how low San Francisco and San Jose were ranked. I thought they would have been in the top 5.

[M TYPE X]

New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been low on innovation since the 19th Century ended.

I'm sure there are reasons to move to Scranton or Buffalo, though.

[BearBranch]

Columbus, Oh actually came in at #7. Seems like it is pretty high on innovation. I was impressed with the techiness of Columbus on my last business trip there.

[the_pines]

Originally Posted by M TYPE X

New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been low on innovation since the 19th Century ended.

I'm sure there are reasons to move to Scranton or Buffalo, though.

Is that why all of Ohio's cities are ranked? Dayton beats out cities much bigger. And Ohio has been decaying forever. Ohio doesn't rely on immigration as much either. It relies on new births. It may seem low on innovation because the bar it set was so high that its not going to be achieved readily. Its also not favored by any liberal bias. Perhaps Columbus is, but not Ohio as a state. That's saying a lot. And none of Ohio's cities have a huge endowment. Though I would hope high tech camera lights and retinal scans for jobs aren't part of the criteria. In those cases I would not want Ohio to be ranked at all. Only innovations that wouldn't have a lot of people getting upset.

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by M TYPE X

New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have been low on innovation since the 19th Century ended.

Interesting perspective, considering Philadelphia was the first major city to implement city-wide wireless internet access.

Wireless Philadelphia - About Wireless Philadelphia (http://www.wirelessphiladelphia.org/about_wireless.cfm - broken link)

[SteelCityRising]

SCRANTON MADE ANOTHER NATIONAL LIST!!! WOOOOO!!! 125th out of 127 cities ranked? That's not too shabby. Take that, Clarksville, TN and Poughkeepsie, NY, numbers 126 and 127 respectively! I'm really not suprised by our ranking---cyber-cafes and Starbucks are opening up all over the region.