Top 25 Cities for Your Career

I'm from Charlotte, too, and I still live here. I think if you're in a senior, high-level banking position you'll be great, but for anything else, it's not so great. The city is pretty big, but it's still growing so I think in maybe 10 years it'll be better. It's not there yet. We're not even in great financial condition - we just spent all of our money on a stupid NASCAR Hall of Fame, and now we can't afford to keep libraries open or pay our teachers, and now you have to pay to play sports in middle and high school. Yeah, Charlotte is doing great!

Bernie
Engagement Rings

Ah, for a poll that rates cities for...beauty. Denver disappoints, because it should be mountainous, and they're just distant grayish things far away....Texas is hot and snaggly in summer. Rochester and Buffalo are rust belt cities that contain ghosts of old grandeur, mansions, elaborate brickwork...and blocks and blocks and blocks of the rotting poorer houses. Hawaii's cost of living is astronomical. Pittsburgh is a jumbly, lost city, full of rot. San Diego and San Antonio? They've lost their minds there, due to the insistent, unrelenting heat that forces you to hide in air conditioned houses or cars. Where, on your list, is Portland-Maine or Fairbanks-Alaska? Thank God, on your list, there is Salt Lake City, where the air is crisp and bright, and the mountains really do surround you. And Santa Fe, Santa Fe, city of dreams....

I live outside of the Louisville metro area in a community about 20 minutes up IH-64 East from the suburbs of Louisville. The comment that it is "full of galloping job opportunities" is not accurate at all. I have been looking for nearly a year after working for a very large employer in Louisville. While the cost of living is reasonable compared with other cities ita size, those thinking of relocating to this area should do their homework on their particular field of work.

Why not, bradley?

I live in Seattle area and have a Masters and 19yrs experience. Myself and MANY, MANY others have been out of work and looking for more than 8 months!! Some more than 16!! You need to reassess your scale!! Opportunities are just now starting to eke out and those are part-time or temporary ones, and mostly for those that were laid off due to the tax breaks that are being offered. Just dipping their toes in! Where are you getting your stats?? Makes me wonder how accurate the other cities are especially since the company that laid me off just opened up a HUGE plant and operations & has plans to put more production lines in a low ranked city and another in the top 5 and yet you dont even mention the manufacturing base which had a major impact on both. Oh well, shouldnt be so harsh. At least someone is trying to help us out with some stats and should be thankful. But we need to be wary of taking things at complete face value!!

Are there any career Bank positions entry level teller to management/ recruiter

Actually, I think that every big city is good. I know it as I am a photo retoucher myself. In big cities you can have much more orders. Just because there more pepole live.

Dallas didn't make this list, but the hard number statistics would put Dallas, TX close to the top. Unemployment is a big concern now and Dallas ranks on the lower end of unemployment. Housing forclosers are a concern and Dallas ranks at the low end here also. Fortune 100s are relocating to Dallas, TX so job oppertunties are increasing. Now I can't say we have the best beach nor (my criteria) the the best hiking trails (also my critieria), but if you are concerned about career growth & opportunity, minimum taxes and retaining the value on your home (the things we are most concerned with in 2009)....Dallas, TX should be somewhere on the list.