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Colorado Springs rated in the top 10 on Forbes Best Places for Business and Careers

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Congratulations Colorado Springs!  You’ve been voted in at number ten for the Best Places for Business and Careers according to Forbes Magazine.  In Colorado, we came in at number 10, while Ft. Collins came in at number 2.  Two other city’s showed up in the top 20, Denver at number 14 and Boulder at number 20.  Way to go Colorado!

North Carolina and Colorado are certainly winners here as they managed to capture ten of the top twenty on the list.  There are plenty of mid-western cities on the list as well.  Interesting was the lack of places in California and the Northeast Corridor. How did they determine the criteria for this Business and Careers List?

Forbes looked at eleven different criteria to come up with the list.  It looked at job growth along with cost of doing business, living costs, income growth and migration trends.  They also looked at how many residents over the age of 25 have actually finished college (Boulder came in number one there).  Also, on the list were crime rates, how many local colleges were located in an area and cultural and recreation opportunities.  New on the list this year was projected job growth in the next five years along with subprime mortgages as a percentage of total loan origination’s over a three year period.

Due to the high tech industries located in both Colorado and North Carolina, these two states are expected to recover faster than the rest of the country as the trends show that high tech will recover faster than other industries.

So, congratulations Colorado Springs.  Another reason to be proud of our city!

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Kathy (719-287-1049)   KTorline@msn.com

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1. Brad Hanks said at March 31st, 2009 at 9:43 pm

   Was there ever any doubt we live in a great place? Not to us I’m sure. Now we’d better go brace for the mad rush to Colorado!

2. Nancy Shakeshaft-Slack said at April 1st, 2009 at 5:34 am

   This is certainly one of the great places to live, but its always nice to receive the knowledge that we’re not the only ones who think that, don’t you think?

3. Film said at November 1st, 2011 at 1:07 am

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