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on Friday October 13 2017, @04:12PM
from the had-better-stop-driving-when-you-reach-the-ocean dept.
from the had-better-stop-driving-when-you-reach-the-ocean dept.
Three cities in Colorado — a state whose fortunes have been tied to the boom and bust of oil, gas and other commodities — are among the top 10 leading destinations for the nation's best and brightest as old cow and mining towns morph into technology hubs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Boulder, the small college town located just north of Colorado's capital, is ranked No. 1 nationally in the Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index, which tracks business formation as well as employment and education in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. Fort Collins and Denver follow at No. 4 and No. 10, respectively.
Are the best and brightest taking up skiing, or seeking higher ground amid rising sea levels?
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by bradley13 on Friday October 13 2017, @07:22PM (5 children)
That's a weird map. I mean, who knew that Beckley, WV (pop 17k) and Altoona, PA (pop 44k) qualified as "metro areas"? I've been in Altoona, and I can assure you that it is neither metropolitan nor any sort of techie nirvana. It's just another small city in the midst of the rust belt.
As for Colorado, it's beautiful, but it's being rapidly destroyed by progs fleeing the results of their own politics. Who knew? If you put prog policies in place, the place becomes unlivable, so you move somewhere else and start all over again.
"Are the best and brightest taking up skiing, or seeking higher ground amid rising sea levels?"
Neither. A better question would be: Who paid Bloomberg to produce this study, and why?
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 13 2017, @07:25PM
Real estate interests, of course.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Grishnakh on Friday October 13 2017, @08:38PM
As for Colorado, it's beautiful, but it's being rapidly destroyed by progs fleeing the results of their own politics. Who knew? If you put prog policies in place, the place becomes unlivable, so you move somewhere else and start all over again.
The progressive laws on marijuana in Colorado seem to be creating a boon for the state's economy and tax coffers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @10:20PM (2 children)
Yeah, right! Moving to Kansas in droves, I tell ya! This from someone living in the Colorado of Europe?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:58PM (1 child)
Exactly! That's what the mainstream stats won't tell you, people are LOVING Kansas! Everyone except the dirty LIIIEEEEBRILLS are moving there. The top 10 list WON'T TELL YOU THAT NEWS!11!1111111 Or the top 100.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @11:38PM
Well, David and Charles Koch live near Wichita and they are doing fine (lots of investments outside Kansas).
Beyond those cokeheads, it's pretty awful.
Gov. Sam Brownback tried full-bore trickle-down Reganomics and found out that, just as when GHW Bush called it "Voodoo Economics", it's still a myth. [google.com]
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