Posted on 05/12/2009 2:30:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BEST BIG CITIES FOR JOBS :
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/13/best-big-cities-jobs-opinions-columnists-employment_slide.html
College towns always hold up due to govt spending. Oxford in the UK has about 64% of the population working for the state (govt). forbes is sounding more socialist by the day.
I vote all the time, to keep Austin weird...
Having no state income tax helps, too.
Of course state capitals do well economically. They are recession proof and tend to suck up all the money from the rest of the state, just like DC is recession proof and sucks up all the money from the rest of the country.
Well speaking of the devil, I applied for a job in Austin. We’ll have to see how that goes.
Bingo!
I work and live in the Austin area. I don't see any slow down in growth, but more cars on the road, and more businesses and strip malls opening.
My studies indicate a clear correlation between economic opportunity and the availability of good Tex-Mex and Barbecue. A cold, crisp Live Oak IPA is another contributor, according to my studies. I hope to perform more studies soon!
Then there’s people like me, out in the proverbial sticks, that wish Austin would pack up and leave the state.
spreading the myth that having a college educated “creative class” is the path to economic prosperity. Austin just leaks money like every other state capital.
Same here. Austin TX is on my short list to move also, along with Tulsa OK and Shreveport LA. Wisconsin is diving deep into the dumpster and not even my beloved Packers can prevent me from moving.
College towns have a huge cache of untaxed 501c3 reserves in the endowment of the school.
Keep Austin weird!!!!!!!!!!
State government, state university. None of that messy, free-market, sell a product or service above its cost, type of thing. Just a long wave of taxpayer dough.
Personally, I feel stuck here in Moscow-on-the-Colorado... I mean Austin. I have been looking for work for the last year and a half, with no luck. I’m really starting to think I should have made my escape when I got laid off from my last job and had the funds to move. Now... just a steady stream of “we’d love to hire you, but you’re just too overqualified for the position.”
I've heard a lot of good things about Shreveport LA. Not too familiar with Tulsa OK though so what made you pick that city on your list?
Time to write off Wisconsin as a negative loss....you guys don't even have Favre anymore.
Austin is home for me and has been for over 30 years. Quality of life was definitely better in Austin prior to 1990. The unfortunate part is that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum which is unlikely to change.
And people like me who agree with you and wish that Austin would just go somewhere else. It is a pretentious, faux-community that is overcrowded and very much over-impressed with itself. Great for someone into whole foods, designer coffee, Alda Alden types with pony tails, and Joan Baez lookalikes. If you like that sort of thing but I don’t. One thing it isn’t, is Texas.
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