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we love it here in Billings, Montana --- close to Beartooth Mountains, Pyror and Bighorn Mountains, Yellowstone Park, Custer Battlefield, Fort Peak CMR Wildlife, Red Lodge, all that and a nice downtown, good shopping, great sports high school and billings mustangs, and, great medical facilities.
We need less sensationalism and more reporting about the problems real people face on a day by day basis. There's a lot of angry & scared people who have lost jobs, house, and sanity.
good articles; http://ow.ly/dmzm
Need more change from Obama
Three words: Right To Work
Nowhere right now! The Obama administration is proving to be anti-small business and anti-self-employed so far!
Just watch how badly they are treating EXISTING small businesses and the self-employed.
well one city sure isn't Natchez Mississippi
The best place to start a business in the US is probably in Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands.
This is a terrible-bad-awful list! Why were no towns listed from CO, OR, or WA; which are certainly some of the most desired states to live in? Much more going for them than many of the areas listed!
The best places to live often are not the best places to start a business. The qualities that make a place a great place to live do not necessary make it a great place to operate a business. Business is looking for good liability protection, low taxes, available labor, customers, etc. Individuals are looking for good schools, entertainment, high paying jobs, affordable housing, etc.
CNNMoney puts Oklahoma City first because intelligent people don't want to go there. The most most right wing state in the country has an uneducated work force, a racist culture, and the answer to all your problems is in the bible. The home of creationism, global warming deniers, the highest percentage of incarceration for women, near the top in high school dropouts, last in renewable energy. I lived there 30 years and I may have to go back. God help me.
But the people there will work for cheap wages. That's usually one of the biggest determinations of where a city gets placed on these lists.
Excellent point, thanks.
My city is on the list and pretty high on the list. Not surprising . . . lots of potential employees and a city-backed ban on decent salaries.
Anytime there's an article with something positive about the south so many people are quick to hit the oh, nos - "oh no, can't be, everyone in the south marries their cousin and carries bibles to the slave market'.
People who can easily see Japan and Germany are different than the nations that waged war against us 70 years ago. But can not see that the south is vastly different from the south of 1860.
Where are most of the teabag protests - in the midwest and central Atlantic states. Where do most of the militant groups have headquarters - in the northwest. The skinhead groups - northeast. What areas were the last to have court monitored integration in schools - the northeast.
Yes, the south has it's share of bible beating, right wing, gun totin' crazies. It is not unique. The fruitcakes of America are well dispersed throughout the nation.
I wouldn't open a lemonade stand, in the state of Texas....to many basket cases down there.
Oh, get real. Texas has no more "basket cases" than any other state, per capita. It's a very large state with a diverse population.
Show of hands. How many folks clicked all 50 times just to find out which 50 cities were on the list?
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That many hands?
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I found it easier to click the tab that says Full List.
Wow, NC had 3 on the list.
4 - Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Wilmington.
Know it seems strange to the people who love to have the south, but the south really does have some nice places.
Not the south I know....
I am from the south, now on the coast. Beautiful place to live. My wife's relatives were unfortunate and ended up in Jersey. Nice people, just unlucky.
Did you see that Hartford, CT is starting a high school to train the next generation of insurance industry workers. Oh, the children, the children.
Appears that the left-wing-nuts have ruined their states and those are no longer good places to start businesses. Unfortunately, the wing-nuts are bringing their ideas to the states that are still good places to live.
yeah, you can never have too many gun shops
Right. Don't you have a tractor pull to go to? A date with your cousin? A kla n meeting?
Yep. Match dot com has some special computer algorithms for those states. If you both have the same IP address in your application it is an automatic match hit.
You should be so lucky as to know people that would attend a tractor pull. Your post speaks volumes about you.
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First Posted: 10-18-09 05:02 PM | Updated: 10-19-09 08:53 AM