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In my experiences and based on my network contacts (DC, Baltimore, Denver, San Antonio, and Austin); the list looks about as accurate as any of those lists are. Surprised that the Dakotas didn't make the list as I thought they had some pretty low unemployment numbers.
Not sure what's going on with TX, but I have several family members who moved to both San Antonio and Austin and are doing great. They're doing so good that I'm starting to consider TX.
In my experiences and based on my network contacts (DC, Baltimore, Denver, San Antonio, and Austin); the list looks about as accurate as any of those lists are. Surprised that the Dakotas didn't make the list as I thought they had some pretty low unemployment numbers.
Not sure what's going on with TX, but I have several family members who moved to both San Antonio and Austin and are doing great. They're doing so good that I'm starting to consider TX.
Yeah I also had a friend who moved to Dallas last year and she appears to be very happy.
I'm in North Dakota, my city's unemployment is at 1.7%. There are more jobs than there are people.
However, we don't have what I'm guessing Forbes thinks of as a "city". The entire state's population is less than most of those cities. In fact, it may be less than all of them.
I know a lot of people from Utah and I have to say Salt Lake is doing ok... but not fantastic. Things have definitely slowed down there, but it could be worse.
This seems very accurate. I left a great job 4 months ago in Columbia, MD (suburb of Baltimore) to relocate for wife's job to Orlando, FL. When in Maryland, often I would go on job interviews to keep me fresh, even though I knew I would not take the job. Seemed like there was MUCH more of an abundance of jobs to apply to and ones that called. Where in Orlando now, jobs are basically non-existent. I will say there are some jobs, but nothing worth wasting time with.
Looking on jobs boards for areas in Maryland it just seems quite the opposite with many jobs. So I would have to agree with the list IMO.
San Jose! YES! Its the Las Vegas of the high-tech world; there's no other place like it. Home to Yahoo!, Google, eBay, Netflix, Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, Adobe, Hitachi, Fujitsu, National Semiconductor, Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, Cisco... (shall I go on??) Jobs are here but you have to be on top of your technology-game to land one. A median salary here is approx. 100K/year.
Most Forbes lists strike me as having been written by first year journalism students who haven't a clue, actually this one reflects my observations so I'll let it go
I read the visa list and these companies seem to recruit a lot of folks from out of the country. I know, that is just good business, there are less costs with foreign workers.
blah. My IT degree is good drawer-liner.
How is hartford Ct on that Best cities list for jobs???
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