Austin’s A Great Place To Live
Austin was ranked number 2 according to a report by The Fiscal Times, “The 10 Top Cities People Are Moving to in 2012”.
What we who live here have known all along, Austin’s a great place to live – is now official….of all the cities in this country Austin came out at the top!
You know a city’s doing well when the media calls it the “next Silicon Valley.” Dell Computer is headquartered here, and Apple announced this spring that it’s bringing a $304 million operations center to the area, along with 3,600 jobs. This spring, Marriott broke ground on a hotel that will occupy an entire block, and having the country’s fifth-largest university in town (the 51,000-student University of Texas) doesn’t hurt. The area added about 9,200 new jobs from June 2010 to June 2011. All of it has made landlords happy and renters fretful—the city’s rents are at all-time high, and occupancy rates are soaring.
And according to the U.S. Census Bureau data Austin posted the strongest gain of private-sector business activity by any major market between 2009 and 2010, boosting its numbers by 2.3 percent. Houston posted a 0.80% increase, and Dallas saw a 0.36% gain.
See how other cities came out in this report.
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