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In our 10th annual ranking of the best places for business and careers, the southeast is home to half of the top 10 for a third straight year.
But there is new blood near the top, including lexington, ky.
Common themes for the businesswelcoming metros include solid job growth, an educated labor supply and low business costs.
Interestingly, six of the 10 metro areas are anchored by capital cities; maybe lobbyist spending boosts an economy.
Topping the list for a second straight year is raleigh, n.
Net migration has averaged 25,000 annually in recent years, or 2.
The influx of talented young people is good news for big employers in the area like cisco systems, glaxosmithkline and sas institute.
One metro that made a big jump was atlanta, which improved to sixth from 25th last year.
Its ranking benefited from strong job and income growth and a big reduction in crime.
Another newcomer to the top 10 is fort collins.
With a metro area population of 282,000, it is one of the smaller places on our list.
Fort collins also benefits from strong income growth and business costs well below other colorado locales like boulder and denver.
Office of management and budget and are based on nine factors.
Based economic research company economy.
We also incorporated economy.
The rest of the data for the rankings was furnished by portland, ore.
He provided stats on crime, educational attainment, presence of fouryear colleges and an index on cultural and recreational opportunities.