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Seattle is not on there? Cloud city? The next San Fran? I don't believe it! Maybe as a percent they haven't increased that much because they have always had so many tech jobs? This being the case, even a couple percentage points of an increase would be a very large number of jobs -even relative to faster growing second and third tier tech hubs. Many valley firms are opening significant engineering offices there for the talent and lower (for now) cost of living.
Just think what the numbers would be if they included Durham, Chapel Hill, RTP, Cary, etc. !
I remember when the airlines would get dinged by Durham when they would say "Welcome to Raleigh" upon landing. I always pay attention to see if they say Raleigh or Raleigh-Durham.
Making a ratings list based only on percentage increase is the most asinine thing I've ever heard of. It's practically meaningless outside of the context of the actual number of jobs in these cities in 2010 and 2015.
Note: this is not a dig at you, vulfpeck, but at the clown Forbes contributor who skimmed the percentages off the NYT article, probably without ever looking at the actual dataset from Moody's. The NYT author barely gets a pass--at least that article includes an image with some vague idea of the absolute number of jobs along with a fleeting sentence about the total number of jobs at the end of last year in SF/SJC combined.
Just think what the numbers would be if they included Durham, Chapel Hill, RTP, Cary, etc. !
I remember when the airlines would get dinged by Durham when they would say "Welcome to Raleigh" upon landing. I always pay attention to see if they say Raleigh or Raleigh-Durham.
But you can bet your bottom dollar had the airport been in Durham County........
Do we even know whether or not these numbers include the entire Triangle or just the eastern half of it?
Making a ratings list based only on percentage increase is the most asinine thing I've ever heard of. It's practically meaningless outside of the context of the actual number of jobs in these cities in 2010 and 2015.
Note: this is not a dig at you, vulfpeck, but at the clown Forbes contributor who skimmed the percentages off the NYT article, probably without ever looking at the actual dataset from Moody's. The NYT author barely gets a pass--at least that article includes an image with some vague idea of the absolute number of jobs along with a fleeting sentence about the total number of jobs at the end of last year in SF/SJC combined.
Adding the second most tech jobs in the country over the last 5 years seems pretty meaningful to me...
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