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Capital area's 8th most livable
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, May 29, 2008
Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D1
The Sacramento region rates as the eighth-best place to live in the United States, according to the July issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.
The magazine's survey gives much weight to the size and growth prospects of a city's "creative class" – people who work in technology, the arts, education, business and a range of professional fields.
The story appears online at www.kiplinger.com/money/ bestcities. The magazine goes on sale June 10.
Kiplinger's cited the Sacramento area's Hewlett-Packard and Intel campuses and pointed to the growing number of clean-energy firms.
"Basically, it's counting by occupations – looking for people who are 'paid to think,' " said Kevin Stolarick, research director at the Martin Prosperity Institute, which helped Kiplinger's develop a list of about 15 leading "creative class" cities around the country.
To pare that to a final list of 10, the magazine also looked at each region's cost of living, as well as recreation, arts and dining scenes.
Houston topped the ratings, followed by Raleigh, N.C.
– Jim Downing
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