Forbes.com ranked the Triangle the third best metropolitan area for business. The rankings found the Triangle exceedingly strong in the “cost of doing business,” an index based on cost of labor, energy, taxes and office space. -April 2010
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Raleigh/Cary area has the highest well-being in the South and the nation’s top work environment index according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
-February 2010
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Raleigh ranked #1 best place to launch a new business by the American City Business Journals.
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Triangle Business Journal: A report by the Brookings Institution that gauges the impact of the recession on metropolitan America has listed the Raleigh-Cary metro area as the strongest in North Carolina, and among the top 40 in the nation
-June 2009
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MSNBC:
America's Best City - MSNBC.com ranks Raleigh America’s
best city. “Raleigh, N.C., it seems, is the best place
to be in the U.S. right now. It ranks No. 1 in Forbes’
2008 list and was also top in 2007 – consistent placement
among these lists is truly rare. It ranks No. 2 in Kiplinger’s
list this year. The city is also Fortune Small Business magazine’s
No. 20 place to live and launch.” -June 2008
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Forbes: Recession-Proof Local Economy
Forbes ranks the Triangle’s economy 5th on a list of
10 recession-proof local economies. -May ‘08
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Kiplinger Magazine: Cool City
Raleigh lands on Kiplinger magazine's list of the seven "cool
cities" in the United States. Its description of the
Capital City reads: Raleigh "is as hot as it gets, thanks
to a healthy job market, a billion-dollar downtown rehab,
top universities and plentiful, inexpensive housing."
The other cities on the list include Nashville, Minneapolis,
Denver, Atlanta, Athens, Ga.; and Austin. -September 2005