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Published: 2011-09-21 16:47:34
Updated: 2011-09-21 16:47:34

Posted: September 21, 2011

Businessweek names Raleigh best American city

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Raleigh, N.C. — Raleigh has been named America's Best City by Businessweek.com.

The ranking was based on the city's thriving social scene, good schools and jobs. The positives come without the negatives that come with bigger cities.

"True, Raleigh may not be the center of the tech universe like San Francisco, a hub of higher education on the same scale as Boston or a vibrant 24-hour metropolis like New York, but all those cities also offered higher unemployment, a dearth of parks, worse public education and other negative factors that weighed against them," the article stated.

The other cities in the top five were Arlington, Va., Honolulu, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Irvine, Calif.

New York was 14th, while Los Angeles ranked 53rd and Chicago 75th.

Detroit, Stockton, Calif., Akron, Ohio, Laredo, Texas, and Cleveland held the last five spots on the list of the top 100 cities.

Copyright 2011 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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My wacko ex used to tell complaining Yanks, "get in your car, point it north and don't let off the gas 'til you're back where you belong"...not the greatest wife but diehard southerner!
extremeski45
September 22, 2011 6:57 p.m.
well maybe we can get another liberal tv station out of NYC on cable
Click to view my profile kpic24
September 22, 2011 4:02 p.m.
Maybe all these people showing up after reading this article will buy some of the housing inventory all the local builders have in their portfolios.
Click to view my profile westernwake1
September 21, 2011 7:03 p.m.
Maybe we'll get a real baseball team.. Like the Yankees
dellman44
September 21, 2011 6:02 p.m.
"Wonderful,here comes another 100,00 yankees to tell us " how we do it where we come from "."

I know...and the failure of 'how they do it where they come from' is the reason they feel the need to move down here and start over again.
slayerhil
September 21, 2011 5:57 p.m.
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