Charlotte make Forbes new top 10 fastest growing cities list (Raleigh: best cities, find a job)
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Today, Forbes released their top 10 list of America's fastest growing US cities. While Raleigh ranked #1, Charlotte came in at #5. Just 2 months ago Forbes ranked Charlotte at #18 in their top 20 list of America's fastest growing cities. What a huge jump! PS: Forbes, please update your photo of Charlotte that you are using!
While I don't doubt that Charlotte is growing fast, these Forbes lists are worth close to useless. They produce these lists every day with every permutation and almost every city in the USA ends up on one. For example they just produced another one "Best Cities for College Grads" and CLT isn't on that one.
It's a grocery store rag. They do it to get people to make an impulse buy or click on their website. The above link doesn't work unless you have tracking active.
While I don't doubt that Charlotte is growing fast, these Forbes lists are worth close to useless. They produce these lists every day with every permutation and almost every city in the USA ends up on one.
It's all about the advertising and click-throughs. That's why these lists are presented as slideshows, where you have to click through page after page, each containing several different ads.
I guess the Forbes writers are running out of worthwhile topics since these lists seem to come out almost weekly. I guess if you keep repeating it, it will eventually happen or be considered true. I do feel a little bad for the people moving here that actually believe all these articles and lists and such.
Totally correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the article saying that CLT is one of the fastest growing cities by population growth (not fastest growing economy)? In that case, it would be a pretty accurate statement, right? I say this with the understanding that these lists are, of course, completely subjective and always changing. Even so, I'm always happy to see CLT on a list that has a positive connotation.
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