[KB0679]

Yep, another Forbes list.

"To form our list, we ranked the 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas--geographic entities that the U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines and uses in collecting statistics--in five categories: unemployment rate, GMP (a measure of the size of a city's economy), foreclosures, home prices and sales rates."

1.Omaha
2.San Antonio
3.Austin
4.Pittsburgh
5.Harrisburg
6.Dallas
7.Rochester
8.Houston
9.Raleigh
10.Baton Rouge

Full list (http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/19/cities-recovery-unemployment-lifestyle-real-estate-top-ten-chart.html)

[PhillyRising]

Almost every major metro area in PA was in the top third of the list. :tup:

See...slow growth can be good. Here all this time we wanted to be like the Sunbelt and almost every Florida metro area is in the bottom 10.

[KB0679]

Almost every major metro area in PA was in the top third of the list. :tup:

See...slow growth can be good. Here all this time we wanted to be like the Sunbelt and almost every Florida metro area is in the bottom 10.

But most every Texas metro is in the top 10. :)

[Trae]

But most every Texas metro is in the top 10. :)

Nicely said.

[Scottolini]

Well you know what they say, "It's like a whole 'nother country".

[EastSideHBG]

5. Harrisburg - I can see this, as a large portion of the economy is based on lower paying jobs and crappy service jobs, so the economy there barely needed to budge. I was there a few weeks ago and I haven't been back in some time, and I was literally stunned to see how many new hotels sprang up all over the place. So if you like working at Targets and hotels, this is the place for you! ;) The state and Hershey aren't shoe-ins anymore like they once were and they have been rocked pretty hard, so you can't really mention them like you used to be able to.

You still couldn't pay me enough to move back there, though, regardless of what lists it makes. ;)

[Capsule F]

5. Harrisburg - I can see this, as a large portion of the economy is based on lower paying jobs and crappy service jobs, so the economy there barely needed to budge. I was there a few weeks ago and I haven't been back in some time, and I was literally stunned to see how many new hotels sprang up all over the place. So if you like working at Targets and hotels, this is the place for you! ;) The state and Hershey aren't shoe-ins anymore like they once were and they have been rocked pretty hard, so you can't really mention them like you used to be able to.

You still couldn't pay me enough to move back there, though, regardless of what lists it makes. ;)

Seems like Harrisburg could be an especially appropriate microcosm of DC, as the same patterns are happening. Capitals that are undersized for what they represent, with a lot of dedicated jobs. Also, people dump money into them for crooked reasons, kind of sickening.

[arbeiter]

Nice to see Pittsburgh up so high on the list!

[fflint]

Hey, best of luck to these cities in bouncing back quickly. And every other city, for that matter.