Midland, Odessa among best cities for jobs in finance (Tyler: 2013, new home)

[Midessan]

This one actually kinda surprised me.

1 Owensboro, KY
2 Ann Arbor, MI
3 Odessa, TX
4 Kankakee-Bradley, IL
5 Midland, TX
6 Clarksville, TN-KY
7 Macon, GA
8 Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, WA
9 Richmond, VA
10 Hanford-Corcoran, CA

Overall Finance Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings | Newgeography.com

[Westerntraveler]

awesome

[Mark Senior]

Gotta, finance, all that oil money. You know, with many more people comes many "more" of most stuff, not really surprising, growth, growth, but better not have 70 oil.

You know, what we usually post are percentage increase, rather than "raw" numbers such as Tyler just reported and 17% increase in new home construction. Not a notworthing thing at all, not worth mentioning except by the chamber of commerce lol, that only means 7 more house were started as compared to last year. Actually, total numbers are far far below the peak back in 2008 or so, way behind the rest of the state. but hey, if you just use percentages, man it looks good. Just think of a town that went from 10 new homes in one year to 20 the next, a mind boggling 100% increase.

[Westerntraveler]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

Gotta, finance, all that oil money. You know, with many more people comes many "more" of most stuff, not really surprising, growth, growth, but better not have 70 oil.

You know, what we usually post are percentage increase, rather than "raw" numbers such as Tyler just reported and 17% increase in new home construction. Not a notworthing thing at all, not worth mentioning except by the chamber of commerce lol, that only means 7 more house were started as compared to last year. Actually, total numbers are far far below the peak back in 2008 or so, way behind the rest of the state. but hey, if you just use percentages, man it looks good. Just think of a town that went from 10 new homes in one year to 20 the next, a mind boggling 100% increase.

As Claytie says "OPM-Other People's money".I fear that too many people are overextending themselves with debt in Midessa.Just wait when oil hit 40-50 bucks a barrel.

[Midessan]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

Gotta, finance, all that oil money. You know, with many more people comes many "more" of most stuff, not really surprising, growth, growth, but better not have 70 oil.

You know, what we usually post are percentage increase, rather than "raw" numbers such as Tyler just reported and 17% increase in new home construction. Not a notworthing thing at all, not worth mentioning except by the chamber of commerce lol, that only means 7 more house were started as compared to last year. Actually, total numbers are far far below the peak back in 2008 or so, way behind the rest of the state. but hey, if you just use percentages, man it looks good. Just think of a town that went from 10 new homes in one year to 20 the next, a mind boggling 100% increase.

Yeah, there are problems with both raw numbers and percentages. For example when it comes to population growth, New York City's raw numbers look great, it is fastest growing city in America. But when you look at percentages its growth is actually glacial in comparison to smaller cities.