CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
Best Cities
12-17-09
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.
This year, MarketWatch expanded its search for the best city for business to
include any metro area with 500,000 people or more thus doubling its search.
And because of the change in methodology, Des Moines, Iowa was identified as
the best place in the nation to do business according to this year’s survey.
Unfortunately, no California cities made it into the top ten. But apparently
expanding the list to include smaller cities was a godsend for many of those
that were in the bottom 10 last year. For example Sacramento, was one such
community benefiting from the change in methodology. Sacramento climbed seven
spaces out of the bottom 10. And Los Angeles, which languished in the bottom
10 in both the 2007 and 2008 surveys also benefited from the broader survey,
because it was helped by the fact that two adjacent areas were dropped from
inclusion in its metro area: Riverside and Oxnard.
San Jose ranked at 27th was the highest ranked of the cities in the state,
followed by San Francisco at 40th, San Diego at 43rd, Oxnard at 62nd, Los
Angeles 64th, Modesto at 73rd, Sacramento at 85th and Riverside at 91st,
and sadly, Bakersfield, Stockton and Fresno are all in the bottom ten of
the list.
Top Ten Best Places
1. Des Moines,IA
2. Washinton DC
3. Omaha
4. Minneapolis-St.Paul
5. Boston
6. Boise
7. Denver
8. Salt Lake
9. Dallas-Ft. Worth
10. Bridgeport, CT
Bottom Ten
92. New Orleans
93. Bakersfield
94. Detroit
95. Tucson
96. Augusta, GA
97. Worchester, MA
98. Stockton
99. Scranton, PA
100. Fresno
101. Youngstown, OH
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
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