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10-19-2007, 06:41 PM
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Interesting quote from the article:
"Raleigh, N.C., led the pack before the full 2006 data were available. (Forbes.com published a Best Cities For Jobs list in February.)
"They're both strong economies and very solid job markets," Zandi said of Salt Lake City, vs. Raleigh. "It's Yankees-Red Sox. What's the difference? There is no real fundamental reason why Salt Lake is now No. 1."
I do wonder though when they say Raleigh is #2 if they are discounting the benefit we see from Durham since much of RTP is actually in Durham and that is where so many of the jobs are. I wonder if Durham is actually #2 and not Raleigh. 
Full Article: Best Cities For Jobs - Yahoo! Real Estate (http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/best_cities_for_jobs.html - broken link)
Top 10
1) Salt Lake City
2) Raleigh
3) Phoenix
4) Jacksonville
5) Orlando
6) Tulsa
7) Austin
8) Albuquerque
9) Wichita
10) Oklahoma City |
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10-19-2007, 07:03 PM
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Location: Cary, NC
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I noticed there are no cities in the Northeast on that list. One of the many reasons I'm glad I left MA.
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10-19-2007, 07:59 PM
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Location: Between a nook-a-ler reactor and a dump, North Cackalacky
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This article is complete and total BS. Why? Any article that says Wichita, OkC, and Tulsa are collectively tops in anything was obviously written by a drug addict or a Chamber of Commerce shill. Or maybe a RE agent looking for more business.  |
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10-19-2007, 08:37 PM
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Tee-tee, Oklahoma is becoming much more attractive to a lot of people. It certainly isn't a big fish yet, but it's growing. A major draw is the fact that cost of living there is so low while quality of life is rather high. I've noticed Tulsa creeping up on lists like this for a couple of years now, so I'm not terribly surprised to see it here.
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10-20-2007, 12:32 AM
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Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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Any and all of these rankings are formulaic. In the associated slide show, they show which data points were used. No matter how you slice the Triangle, it's always done well in these sorts of comparisons.
Because the metro area formerly known as Raleigh-Durham is now two distinct metros, I am guessing that they are only counting the data from what is the new Raleigh-Cary metro area.
And, because they were only counting the top 100 areas in population, I am not even sure if Durham-Chapel Hill was even considered.
Regarding the jobs/RTP issue, keep in mind that these rankings are based on job growth, not total jobs. I don't know the specifics but I am pretty confident that more of the job growth in RTP in the last few years has been in the smaller Wake Co. side since it's the last part to be developed: Cisco, Credit Suisse, NetApp, Biogen, etc. Lenovo is also located in Wake County but I don't know if they are in RTP proper or just Morrisville.
I continue to decry the ridiculous decision to separate Raleigh-Cary from Durham-Chapel Hill into two metro areas. I think the area is stronger as a unified front and should be described as such. I don't think you can talk about one area without considering the whole.
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10-20-2007, 05:31 AM
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Location: Holly Springs, NC USA
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Originally Posted by MAtoNC!
I noticed there are no cities in the Northeast on that list. One of the many reasons I'm glad I left MA.
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CT led all states nationally in job growth, in the last 12 months. Growing at 1.8%- the national average was lower -around 1.5%. The state has recovered all the 60,000 jobs lost in the last recession. |
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10-20-2007, 05:51 AM
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CT led all states nationally in job growth, in the last 12 months. Growing at 1.8%- the national average was lower -around 1.5%. The state has recovered all the 60,000 jobs lost in the last recession.
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Do you have a link to this? Not buying it.
Yeah, it only took a decade to get those jobs back If you're trying to say that Ct has faster job growth than Raleigh, you're quite incorrect. |
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10-20-2007, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by rnc2mbfl
I continue to decry the ridiculous decision to separate Raleigh-Cary from Durham-Chapel Hill into two metro areas. I think the area is stronger as a unified front and should be described as such. I don't think you can talk about one area without considering the whole.
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I completely agree with you. It seems silly to split the Triangle in half like this. |
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