Originally Posted by jackofalltrades
I found this list not too terribly surprising. You have to understand that this list is made up of numerical data which can tell a skewed story.
Huntsville over Nashville??? Really?
Fayetteville, AR really be compared with Austin or DC?
Birmingham #95? I know you have to go by the numbers here, but wow. I guess its low education, high crime, and poor job performance really hurt us.
I was also very surprised to see Nashville's Healthcare jobs so much greater than Bhams. I'm used to hearing about how great Bham's Healthcare job market is. By the numbers, Nashville has 120k Healthcare jobs, while Bham has about 64k. This would make sense if the population of Nashville were double, but that's not the case. I'm just so used to hearing Birmingham tout it's booming Healthcare industry as if it's a national leader.
Rank City
1 Austin, TX
2 Colorado Springs, CO
3 Denver, CO
4 Des Moines, IA
5 Fayetteville, AR
6 Portland, OR
7 Huntsville, AL
8 Washington, DC
9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
10 Seattle, WA
11 Nashville, TN
12 Grand Rapids, MI
13 Raleigh & Durham, NC
14 San Antonio, TX
15 Salt Lake City, UT
16 Madison, WI
17 San Jose, CA
18 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
19 Phoenix, AZ
20 San Francisco, CA
21 Lexington-Fayette, KY
22 Charlotte, NC
23 Boise, ID
24 Asheville, NC
25 Boston, MA
26 Houston, TX
27 Portland, ME
28 Omaha, NE
29 Melbourne, FL
30 San Diego, CA
31 Greenville, SC
32 Lancaster, PA
33 Reno, NV
34 Sarasota, FL
35 Honolulu, HI
36 Columbus, OH
37 Manchester, NH
38 Charleston, SC
39 Albany, NY
40 Fort Wayne, IN
41 Fort Myers, FL
42 Anchorage, AK
43 Winston-Salem, NC
44 Jacksonville, FL
45 Harrisburg, PA
46 Hartford, CT
47 Atlanta, GA
48 Syracuse, NY
49 Cincinnati, OH
50 Lansing, MI
51 Rochester, NY
52 Buffalo, NY
53 Pensacola, FL
54 Richmond, VA
55 Indianapolis, IN
56 Columbia, SC
57 Pittsburgh, PA
58 Kansas City, MO
59 Springfield, MA
60 Louisville, KY
61 Worcester, MA
62 Oklahoma City, OK
63 Knoxville, TN
64 Little Rock, AR
65 Springfield, MO
66 Tucson, AZ
67 Santa Barbara, CA
68 Spokane, WA
69 Milwaukee, WI
70 Lakeland, FL
71 Chattanooga, TN
72 Reading, PA
73 Myrtle Beach, SC
74 Tampa, FL
75 Augusta, GA
76 Santa Rosa, CA
77 Orlando, FL
78 Port St. Lucie, FL
79 Las Vegas, NV
80 Wichita, KS
81 Dayton, OH
82 Baltimore, MD
83 Tulsa, OK
84 York, PA
85 Detroit, MI
86 Chicago, IL
87 New Haven, CT
88 St. Louis, MO
89 Killeen, TX
90 Providence, RI
91 Sacramento, CA
92 Salem, OR
93 Daytona Beach, FL
94 Birmingham, AL
95 Allentown, PA
96 Philadelphia, PA
97 Virginia Beach, VA
98 Baton Rouge, LA
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