Friday, March 16, 2007

Iowa City One of the 10 Best; Affordable Places to Live

This is a long overdue post, but hopefully it will be the jump-starting of a more regular postings.

This article sent to me by Chiara, talks about 10 locales around the country that offer a low cost of living, good prospects for work and a high quality of life.

Iowa City has made the list and I found the statistics about it quite interesting. It seems around here, everybody is trying to figure out how to revitalize downtown or find out new ways to get people to come work here.

According to the article, we have a 2.7% unemployment rate (4.6% is the national average) and 5-year job growth has been 12.33% compared to 4.9% across the rest of the country.

Read the article and find out if your locale made it to the list!

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