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Austin among Forbes’ best weekend vacation cities (Forbes, October 2011)
The Good Life: 7 New Retirement Hot Spots, (ABC, July 2011)
Austin, Houston rank as best places for young adults to get started (Business Journals, June 2011)
Austin is the #1 Most Popular City for College Graduates (Yahoo Finance, January 2011)
Austin is the #3 Best Job Market in America (Forbes, January 2011)
Austin is the #1 Celeb city to live or visit (CNBC, December 2010)
Austin is a top manufacturing city (Manufacturer News, December 2010)
Austin 8th best college town in U.S. (Huffington Post, December 2010)
Austin ranked 12th best city for shopping (Forbes, December 2010)
Austin No. 4 best place to visit in U.S. (Lonely Planet, December 2010)
Austin is the 26th Most Dynamic City in the World (The Atlantic, December 2010)
Austin is the 5th Best City to Relocate to in America (CNBC, December 2010)
Austin has the 9th Strongest Job Market in the U.S. (Indeed.com, December 2010)
Austin Best City for Young Adults
Forbes.com (December 15, 2010)
“Austin boasted the strongest job growth in NEWS- WEEK’s Top 10, both last year and over the decade. Home to the state capital and the ever-expanding University of Texas, the city is arguably the best-posi- tioned of the nation’s emerging tech centers.”
Austin Ranked Among America’s Favorite Cities
Travel + Leisure (November 2010)
“The 2010 results are in! This summer, you ranked 35 U.S. cities on their culture, shopping, restaurants, nightlife, and more. See which urban destinations fared best with visitors and residents.”
Austin Among America’s Most Affordable Cities
Forbes.com (October 28, 2010)
“Everything may be bigger in Texas, but Austin’s genius is nurturing the power of small. Just ask Rob Neville, who wants to develop his biotech firm, Savara Pharmaceuticals, into a major player in the field of inhaled-drug therapy. The firm started in Kansas, but Neville transplanted it to Austin because the city is ar-guably the country’s best crucible for small business.”
Austin Ranked Among Best Cities to Relocate
RelocateAmerica.com
Austin is the 7th Smartest Metropolitan Area in U.S. (Daily Beast, October 2010)
Austin has one of the Best Flea Markets in the World (Travel Channel, 2010)
Austin is the 2nd Best College Town (American Institute for Economic Research,
September 2010)
Austin is the 3rd Most Stable City (Brookings Institute, 2010)
Austin is a Top 10 Place in America Poised for Recovery (Newsweek, November 2010)
Austin is the #1 Most Recession-Proof City (CNN, July 2010)
Austin is the #1 Best City for the Next Decade (Kiplinger, July 2010)
Austin is the #1 Best City for Young Professionals (Austin Business Journal, March 2010)
Austin is the #1 Best City for Housing Market (Builder Magazine, February 2010)
Austin is the #1 Best City in the U.S. Economic Recovery (Forbes, March 2010)
Austin is the #1 Best City for Job Growth Potential (NewGeography.com, April 2009)
Austin is the #1 Best City for Job Growth (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2009)
Austin is the #1 Best City for a Career (WomenCo., May 2009)
Austin is the #1 Best Bargain City in U.S. (Forbes.com, May 2009)
Austin is the #1 Best City for a Fresh Start (Relocation.com, May 2009)
Texas is the #1 Best State for Business (CNBC, 2010)
Austin has the #2 Economy in U.S. (Businessweek, September 2009)
Austin is in the Top 10 Greenest Cities in the U.S. (The Mother Nature Network, July 2010)
Austin is in the Top 8 Sensational Places for Foodies (Where to Retire magazine, May/June 2009)
Austin is the #7 Top Tech Centers in U.S. (American Cities Business Journals, May 2009)
Austin is the #10 Fittest City in U.S.
Austin is a Top Retail City in U.S. (Pitney Bowes Business Insight, May 2009)
Austin is the #14 Best Art Destination in U.S. (AmericanStyle Magazine, April 2009)
Austin Hosts a Top 25 Best Film Festival Worth Its Application Fee (MovieMaker Magazine, April 2009)
Austin has the #2 Fastest Growth Rate in 2008 (U.S. Census Bureau, March 2009)
Austin is the #8 Best Place for Business and Careers (Forbes.com, March 2009)
Austin is a Top Best City for the Outdoors (Forbes.com, February 2009)
Austin is in the Top 10 Budget Travel Destinations in 2009 (Budget Travel Magazine, January 2009)
Austin is featured in “15 Coolest North American Cities” (MSN Travel, January 2009)
Austin is the 9th fastest growing metro in the U.S. between 2000 - 2009 (Census Bureau, 2010)
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10 Best Cities for the Next Decade They're prosperous, innovative, and they'll generate plenty of jobs, too. Austin ranks #1. July 2010. Austin is arguably the the country's best crucible for small business, offering a dozen community programs that form a neural network of business brainpower to help entrepreneurs.
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Best Cities for Jobs – Monster.com ranks Austin number one for jobs in 2010 and lists the criteria needed for creating jobs in the future that are a great match for Austin: 1) Tech companies are moving there, 2) Universities and research parks collaborate with the local business community. 3) The political climate is business-friendly. 4) There’s a high concentration of entrepreneurs. 5) A large proportion of the residents have a bachelor’s degrees or higher.
The Brookings Institute released their quarterly in-depth analysis which ranks Austin the third most recession proof city in the U.S. The Brookings Institute MetroMonitor analyzes the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies. It examines trends in metropolitan-level employment, output, and housing conditions to look “beneath the hood” of national economic statistics to portray the diverse metropolitan trajectories of recession and recovery across the country.
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Read the MetroMonitor Performance Report, June 29, 2010
Ten boom towns with resilient economies, growing industries, and lots of job potential. Knowledge workers, take note. – BNET ranks Austin number one for job growth over the next decade. “Over the next decade, the best jobs are going to go to the cities with the industries and the entrepreneurial incentives in place to support a highly educated, tech-savvy workforce.”
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Austin was picked as the No. 1 best city to live in for the next 10 years in a Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. The magazine cited the capital city's innovative thinking, plentiful music venues, lakes, parks, unique business climate and job-creation tendencies.
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Read more: Austin 'crucible for small business' - Austin Business Journal
The article: Austin Best City May 27, 2010
FORBES ranks Austin 2nd Most Innovative. The report said Austin benefits from such resident innovators as Round Rock-based Dell Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. The University of Texas's Cockrell School of Engineering and IBM Corp's Austin research lab were also cited as the city's "secret weapon." May 25, 2010
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Read more: Forbes: Austin No. 2 most innovative - Austin Business Journal
Out of 100 most popular retirement towns for 2010, Austin ranks number 5! The cultural and other activities associated with The University of Texas is a major draw. Our cosmopolitan and high-tech, quirky soul is another. Plus, we has a relatively low cost of living. By Robert Powell, MarketWatch.
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Don't Mess With Texas Small Biz - No major state has weathered the recession more successfully than Texas. So it’s logical that the best place to launch a new business would be a prominent Texas metropolitan area. The nation’s top score for small-business vitality, according to a new Portfolio.com/bizjournals study, belongs to Austin.
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Texas job growth tops nation for the decade - Texas continued to make strides in private sector job growth during the past 10 years. Texas led the nation with 724,300 more net private sector jobs in December 2009 compared with one decade ago. Over the last 10 years only two of the 10 largest states, Texas and Florida, had positive job growth. “Texas’ business, tax, and economic policies created an environment where businesses can succeed and create jobs.” (Source: Austin Business Journal, U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas Workforce Commission)
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FORBES–Best U.S. Cities To Earn A Living: Forget New York and L.A. The best career prospects are in these places. Austin ranks #4. September 2009.
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Austin was ranked eighth in Kiplinger's Personal Finance list of the country's best cities. Austin scored highly due to its solid job growth and stable economy. July 2009
by Jane Bennett Clark
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that once again Austin was the only major city in the nation to add jobs last year. April 2009 marks the third consecutive month Austin has outperformed all other cities.
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In a list of the nation's top cities for relocation compiled by Relocation.com, Austin placed first. The city's economic-growth forecast, housing affordability and strength of the community contributed to its success. Summer 2009
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America's Best Bargain Cities
Four other Texas cities make the list of America's Best Bargain Cities, but none come close to Austin, whose 5.5% unemployment is the best in the country and about half the national average. May 14, 2009
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Austin ranks No. 1 for job growth potential
Texas dominates a new list on job growth potential among the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. Austin ranks No. 1 on the list of big cities for employment potential from NewGeography.com. Texas’ major metros round out the top five spots on the big cities list, with Houston coming in 2nd, San Antonio 3rd, Fort Worth-Arlington 4th and Dallas 5th. -
Your Money: It May be Time to Think About Buying a House (New York Times)
Five or 10 years from now, when the financial crisis has ended and housing prices are up smartly once more, we will look in the rearview mirror and realize that we missed a golden age for first-time home buyers. December 6, 2008
by Ron Lieber
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America's Fastest-Growing Large And Small Metros (FORBES)
Projected total GMP growth, 2007-2012: 32.05% (Austin ranked the No.1 city to seek out)
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Best and Worst Places to Buy a House (ENTREPRENEUR.com)
Cities you should seek out and avoid in 2008 (Austin ranked No. 1)
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Best Cities To Buy A Home (FORBES)
Ten spots worthy of a mortgage. (Austin ranked No. 2)
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Best Cities For Young Professionals (FORBES) (Austin ranked No. 9)
The 40 top spots for climbing the ladder.
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Austin was named third on the Forbes.com list of the top 10 "Recession-Proof Cities" in the United States.
To create the list, the magazine looked at the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, examining key measures, such as unemployment data, non-farm-related job growth, median home prices and data from a 2007 report titled, "U.S. Metro Economies: The Mortgage Crisis" by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
At number three, Austin was right behind San Antonio, which grabbed the second spot thanks to solid employment figures and affordable home prices that continue to rise.
For its part, Austin was lauded for being a hip town with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.
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Austin ranks among nation's brainiest, recent study shows
by Sandra Zaragoza ABJ Staff (AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL)
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Austin is fourth in best cities for job hunting
by AnnaMaria Andriotis, September 17, 2008 (SMARTMONEY.com)
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