{"id":1444,"date":"2008-02-28T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/americas-smartest-cities\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T19:38:05","slug":"americas-smartest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/americas-smartest-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Smartest Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/02\/07\/americas-smartest-cities-oped-cx_apa_0207smartest_slide_2.html?partner=abcnews\">Forbes ranked the top 25<\/a>&#8230;is there anything Forbes won&#8217;t rank?\u00a0 Yet, I am a sucker and watched the slide show.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll speed it up for you a bit and provide the top 5:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boulder, CO<\/li>\n<li>Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, MD<\/li>\n<li>Ithaca, NY<\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Corvallis, OR<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I won&#8217;t mention which one of those towns is my hometown&#8230;well, I spent the first 5 years of my life there.\u00a0 Lee says that doesn&#8217;t count.\u00a0 Unfortunately for him, the Twin Cities did not make the list.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, I&#8217;m not sure if there is much value to this type of list.\u00a0 Clearly the top towns are host to a major university which stands to reason they would have a higher rating.\u00a0 The mildly interesting point to me is how these different college towns rated against each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, Forbes ranked the top 25&#8230;is there anything Forbes won&#8217;t rank?\u00a0 Yet, I am a sucker and watched the slide show.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll speed it up for you a bit and provide the top 5: Boulder, CO Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, MD Ithaca, NY ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Corvallis, OR I won&#8217;t mention which one of those towns is my hometown&#8230;well, I spent the first 5 years of my life there.\u00a0 Lee says that doesn&#8217;t count.\u00a0 Unfortunately for him, the Twin Cities did not make the list. In all seriousness, I&#8217;m not sure if there is much value to this type of list.\u00a0 Clearly the top towns are host to a major university which stands&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/americas-smartest-cities\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,15,5],"tags":[374,372,373],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-sourcing","category-trends","tag-college-town","tag-smart-cities","tag-smartest-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ni","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/top-10-cities-for-career-advancement\/","url_meta":{"origin":1444,"position":0},"title":"Top 10 Cities for Career Advancement","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers of this blog know that we are suckers for lists. This one popped up today and had to be shared. One thought, the author mentions that the government's OMB office has split up towns like Raleigh-Durham in to two separate towns. This seems strange - especially living in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1977,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/where-to-get-downsized\/","url_meta":{"origin":1444,"position":1},"title":"Cities Getting Downsized","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a funny clue from the abcnews.com article: To be direct: If Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel or John Mellencamp has written a melancholy song about your city, it's probably on this list. 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