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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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Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 13 2017, @07:53PM (4 children)
Net migration away != no migration away. I don't know what the current emigration rate is, but it was around a million a year last decade.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday October 13 2017, @08:05PM (2 children)
Net migration is the only measure that matters.
People retire and move away and are replaced by younger people. So what?
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 13 2017, @08:52PM (1 child)
Ok. That has nothing to do with the fact that people leave California for other places, including Colorado.
So net migration is not the only measure that matters. Now, you've introduced some supposed age thing which is just as irrelevant since age wasn't one of the factors studied.
My experience has been that in some parts of California, people don't last till retirement age. I worked in California near San Jose for a couple of years and then ended up in Washington state near Portland - little over 30 years old at the time). I returned to go back to graduate school at Davis, CA and left again when I was 40 years old for Denver (though I currently spend most of my time in Yellowstone National Park). Did I "retire" from California?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:25PM
Ahem no.2 and 3 on the list?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday October 13 2017, @10:17PM
I don't know what the current emigration rate is, either, but it was -100,000 per week in 2005.