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Bingo!!!! I have been ranking metro areas, retirement areas, and small towns since 1985. When I see anything from Wallethub, I roll my eyes and chuckle.
Wallethub doesn’t even do metros. It does city proper only. Hence you can have several mega suburbs from any number of sunbelt metros occupying the same lists. As lists go they are definitely bottom of the barrel and typically uninteresting. That is unless you enjoy finding out that nondescript sprawlburbs surrounding Dallas, Phoenix, and LA top statistical criteria that their list creators conjure up since it’s clear they don’t have the capability to actually mine data at the regional level.
Although I’ll give them a little credit on this list since it’s hodge podging in a few more sub cities I’ve never seen on one of their lists before. That just means they opened up their criteria to legal municipalities smaller than 250k residents for this particular list. I’ve never seen them do that before. If you look at the map you’ll notice every Dallas suburb is ranked separately. Which I’m sure is going to be super valuable to anyone moving to the DFW area not wanting to cross the road into the next suburb :eyeroll:
And then there are the glaring omissions: Why don't they list Provo/Orem and Ogden UT? Or Gainesville and Pensacola FL? Or Greenville SC? Or Fayetteville AR?
Taken from the methodology:
In order to determine the best job markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state — across two key dimensions, “Job Market” and “Socio-economics.”
Frankly speaking, Burlington VT metro is an extreme job seeker's market right now. Burger King can't find people to flip burgers for $15 an hour. The company I work for has been looking for an electrician for over a year, offering higher and higher salaries, but nobody is biting. There's a massive shortage of labor here.
Edit: Unemployment was less than 1.5% prior to Covid, and because the measures taken here have been so effective in keeping of spread of the virus minimal, that the economy hasn't been all that much impacted. So I'm sure that helps.
Last edited by EckyX; 01-09-2021 at 06:30 PM..
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