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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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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 13 2017, @07:23PM (2 children)
White people have been leaving California for the Pacific Northwest for 30 years. People in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming call it "californication." They have raised hackles among the natives because they tend to be holier-than-thou post-hippies who drove up all the local housing prices. They moved in first to Seattle and Portland, which drove those inhabitants to Bend, Eugene, Tacoma, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Boise, Missoula. Successive waves have since reached those aforementioned communities plus smaller ones like Sandpoint, Kalispell, Pendleton, Cody, and Buffalo. Poor bastards.
So far Utah's Mormons and the white supremacists in the Idaho panhandle have repelled californication, but it's only a matter of time before they too succumb.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Informative) by crafoo on Saturday October 14 2017, @02:59AM
People mark this funny but it's not. These vermin move into a peaceful, balanced community in the Pacific NW and then begin to implement the same insane, ignorant laws and policies that ruined the last place they lived. They are so completely clueless they do not understand THEY are what is wrong. They are secure in their belief that they know what's best for this new community though. Having tested and proven their ideas are complete ignorant bullshit, they look everywhere else but themselves to place blame. Their idiocy ruined the last place. It ruins the new place. Yet they are bewildered and unable to understand.
Californians, please fuck off to the east coast. No one likes you here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @05:31AM
they havevestablishedctheir beachhead in Boise. Thats where Micron is HQ, and they have a fab there too. HP/HPE basically moved their Oregon offices to Boise too. So there is your high tech pipeline.