[SeekAndFind]

[SeekAndFind]

BEST BIG CITIES FOR JOBS :

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/13/best-big-cities-jobs-opinions-columnists-employment_slide.html

[Frantzie]

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.

[stevie_d_64]

I vote all the time, to keep Austin weird...

[La Lydia]

Having no state income tax helps, too.

[Thorin]

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.

[MinorityRepublican]

Well speaking of the devil, I applied for a job in Austin. We’ll have to see how that goes.

[lormand]

"There is a third factor, however, that adds to Austin's special sauce: the fact that it is located in Texas, the one fast-growing mega-state"

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.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

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!

[TheZMan]

Then there’s people like me, out in the proverbial sticks, that wish Austin would pack up and leave the state.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

[jdub]

Keep Austin weird!!!!!!!!!!

[Tax-chick]

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.

[tarawa]

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.”

[Kolb]

This bozo makes Austin sound like the answer to everyone's prayers- what he doesn't mention is how inept and corrupt the local government is, how our infrastructure is crumbling as the city deficit spends yet uncollected tax dollars on frivolous "crown jewel" projects and how their "sanctuary city policy" is bankrupting our social services.

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.

[al_c]

It comes and goes. Back in ‘97, I got laid off from a job in Austin and could not find anything. I searched for months and ended up in the Dallas area. I kept on looking for a job back in Austin but I gave up after a year. At that time, the Dallas area was the hot spot.

[MinorityRepublican]

bttt