America's smartest cities

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America's smartest cities

June 21, 2006

Bizjournals.com analyzed the educational levels of adults in nearly 16,000 cities, towns, villages, boroughs and unincorporated areas. Communities were ranked in three population categories, based on a formula that rewards places with heavy concentrations of college graduates.

1. Seattle 56.36

2. San Francisco 52.09

3. Austin 50.03

4. Colorado Springs 49.61

5. Minneapolis 48.52

6. Charlotte, N.C. 47.93

7. San Diego 47.9

8. Washington, D.C. 47.39

9. Portland, Ore. 46.31

10. Albuquerque, N.M. 46.11

11. Virginia Beach, Va. 45.53

12. Arlington, Texas 45.05

13. Boston 45.02

14. Denver 44.8

15. Honolulu 44.09

The bottom five

53. Miami 25.98

52. Cleveland 27.17

51. Detroit 28.09

50. Philadelphia 31.36

49. Baltimore 31.82

SOURCE: Bizjournals.com


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[benburch]

1. But I bristle at the suggestion...

...that non-college-educated working men and women are not "smart".

[lpbk2713]

2. Smirky has a college education.

And he doesn't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.

[rock]

18. LOL. Very clever

I hadn't heard that one before.

[IsIt1984Yet]

4. Nor are the college-educated necessarily "smart".

[JuniperLea]

17. My thoughts exactly n/t

[depakid]

3. Colorado Springs?

LOL.

I don't think so....

[RagingInMiami]

5. Hooray for Miami

For making the bottom of the list. At least our city won the NBA Championship.

[lpbk2713]

7. In fairness to Miami ....

a lot of the citizens arrived there with what they had on their backs and nothing else. They couldn't get into school because of citizenship issues and language barriers. This would have thrown the survey curve way off.



(I'm not talking down to RIM. I know better..... That Havana thread was a good one :thumbsup: )

[RagingInMiami]

10. You're absolutely right

More than 50 percent of the population of Miami-Wade County is an immigrant, mostly from Latin America and the Caribbean. And 20 percent of the population is African-American, who have never had it easy in Miami.

A few years ago, Miami was the poorest city in the country, now it is the third poorest.

But Miami is also home to Florida International University, which is the top producer of Hispanic graduates in the US and the third largest producer of minority graduates (55% Hispanic, 12% African-American, and 3% Asian), according to Black Issues in Higher Education.

So if "brainpower" is determined by education, we're only a generation or two away from moving up in the ranks.

BTW, I was raised by a single mother, an immigrant who was never able to get an education, but I graduated from Florida International University.

[RagingInMiami]

12. I forgot to mention

Thanks for the compliment on my Havana thread.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. I think it's also the retirees.

College degrees are just more common than they were fifty years ago.

[gratuitous]

9. And lost in the CWS

Go Beavers!

[RagingInMiami]

11. Yeah, that sucks

But still, there is no shame. After all, look at their past record.

[Obamarama]

6. If Colorado Springs is so educated, why are they so friggin' CONSERVATIVE?

That town is like some bizarre Resmuglican Freeper vortex.

[shireen]

8. a college education does not make anyone smart

after 4 years, i came out dumber than I was as a freshman.

And i've been getting dumber and dumber ever since ..... :silly:


The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know. It's very humbling.

[dysfunctional press]

23. that's because college isn't about learning.

it's about making grades.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. Problem Is Level Of Education Is A Worthless Metric And Has Nada To Do

with intelligence.

I run circles around every college graduate I know.

What a worthless study.

[texasleo]

14. Austin way ahead of Boston

:evilgrin:

[unhappycamper]

15. Yea, but we have better freewayblogs.

And a few other things as well:

Freedom Trail:
http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/home.htm
Maparium:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Massachusetts/Boston-794476/Things_To_Do-Boston-Maparium_Christian_Science_Center-BR-1.html
Duck Tours:
http://www.bostonducktours.com/
Charles River:
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/charlesR.htm
Arnold Arboretum: (5 minutes from the house)
http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/
Jamaica Pond: (10 minutes from the house)
http://www.taylorhouse.com/jppond.html
MFA: (I have a family membership, so four of us can get in for free)
http://www.mfa.org/
The not-so-famous MOBA:
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
Black Heritage Trail:
http://www.afroammuseum.org/trail.htm
John Adams’ home:
http://www.nps.gov/adam/
BSO:
http://www.bso.org/
John F. Kennedy Library & Museum:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Cemeteries:
http://www.mountauburn.org/
http://www.foresthillstrust.org/about.html
Salem, MA:
http://www.salemweb.com/guide/roger.shtml
Battleships and whales:
http://www.museumsofboston.org/southofboston.html
Beaches:
http://duxburybeachpark.com/
http://www.drbeach.org/drbeach/massachusetts/beach_massachusetts.htm
Cape Cod:
http://www.nps.gov/caco/
http://www.allcapecod.com/
Martha’s Vineyard:
http://www.mvy.com/
Nantucket:
http://www.nha.org/
Lobstah (Ogunquit Lobster Pound is the best)
http://www.phantomgourmet.com/Showpage.aspx?content=GreatAteDetails&greatateid=93
Whale watching (May~July):
http://www.bostonharborcruises.com/whalewatch/index.htm

[RagingInMiami]

16. Now I really like Austin

But I would like it a lot better if it weren't in Texas.

Wait, who am I to talk? I live in Florida.

[KansDem]

20. I really dislike these kinds of articles...

The content is a study of cities, states, countries, or the like, usually using many variables, models, and subjects. Then the article only provides a small example, like this one: 20 cities out of 16,000 (top 15; bottom 5). Then you go to the source and it doesn't give much more.

Publish the study! I want to see more (like where's Kansas City on this list). But I have to settle for the minuscule amount of information the author gives me. To be honest, this article has very little, if any, important information for my needs.

[RagingInMiami]

22. I think Kansas City made the other list

The top ten BBQ joints in the U.S. Of course that's the Missouri side.

http://www.slashfood.com/2006/05/07/usa-todays-top-10-barbecue-joints/

[KamaAina]

21. We're number fif-teen! We're number fif-teen!

Out of 53! Not shabby considering how awful public schools are out here.

Possibly helping out our cause is the fact that the City and County of Honolulu includes the entire island of O'ahu, including affluent suburbs. The article does not make clear whether the No. 15 city is the entire City and County, or just what the Census Bureau calls "Honolulu CDP" (census designated place), the closest we have to a city population comparable to those on the mainland.