Salt Lake City: Top 15 on Planet Earth

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:58 pm

Chances are, where you live is not gangster.

http://downtown.fox13now.com/news/business/fortune-lists-salt-lake-city-among-best-new-cities-business/57966

Salt Lake City is one of two cities in the United States dubbed by Fortune magazine as one of the "15 best new cities for business."

Salt Lake City joins Austin, Texas, and thirteen other cities including Warsaw, Poland, and Stockholm, Sweden, in the list of cities that are emerging as hot spots for business.

Fortune says they looked at economic data, talked to business leaders about where they plan to open new offices and factories and talked to local business leaders. Utah Governor Gary Herbert was among those local leaders touting Salt Lake City as a great new location for business.

"This was an opportunity to showcase how Utah is business-friendly, with low taxes and low energy costs, an impressive workforce and one of the strongest local economies," the Governor said in a statement released Wednesday. "I was thrilled to see Salt Lake City get this well-deserved and timely recognition."

Fortune cites low tax rates and low-cost utilities as prime reasons for Salt Lake City's desirability, plus the numerous start-ups coming out of the University of Utah, who claims to produce the most successful start-up companies in the nation. A recent study also determined that Salt Lake City's workforce is the most productive in the nation.

With top companies like eBay, Electronic Arts and Twitter opening up offices in Utah, the business world is recognizing Salt Lake City's emerging importance in the business world.

BYU graduate and Salt Lake City resident Josh James is listed as one of four CEOs on the frontiers of global business for Omniture, a company he started in the early 1990s and sold to Adobe for $1.8 billion cash.

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:03 pm

Chicago was known for it's Gangsters.

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:20 am

Gangster.

Not even in the top ten.

this makes more sense.

JL Rockies wrote:

Chances are, where you live is not polygamist.

JL Rockies · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:45 am

KJ 119 wrote:

Gangster.

Not even in the top ten.

this makes more sense.

JL Rockies wrote:

Chances are, where you live is not polygamist.

That's just stupid.

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:59 am

JL Rockies wrote:

Chances are, where you live is not gangster.

[i]Salt Lake City is one of two cities in the United States dubbed by Fortune magazine as one of the "15 best new cities for business."

Salt Lake City joins Austin, Texas

501 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:46 am

Anyone ever look up the definition of Gangster? :-)r

Gangster (From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gangster)

A wannabe thug, often illiterate and an inhabitant of a downtrodden ghetto that hangs around in "gangs"; These try-hard wanna be "gangstas" attempt to make themselves appear like real criminals by graffiting buildings, smoking/selling drugs and trying to looking all "bad-ass and macho an'-shit, yo". An utter degradation of what true gangsters represent (see below), and street wannabe "gangsta"-types don't hold a candle to what real gangsters are.

:-)r

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:24 am

But since this is a JEEP forum...............

Where would any of us be,
no matter if you drive a KJ / KK or Wrangler,
if it were not for Toledo Ohio and its dedicated Jeep employees.

So you can brag about everything else and your State/City being number one in whatever,

But for REAL JEEP ENTHUSIAST'S
There is only One,
TOLEDO OHIO

:goink:

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:49 am

Check this out Bub! Here is why I stay out of Jacksonville at night.

Jacksonville, FL New Orleans, LA National

Murder: 13.8 37.6 7
Forcible Rape: 27.39 20.18 32.2
Robbery: 289.5 176.5 205.8
Aggravated Assault: 506.5 288.8 336.5
Burglary: 1,208.2 947.9 813.2
Larceny Theft: 3,665 1,212.6 2601.7
Vehicle Theft: 543 664 501.5

Jacksonville's murder rate is the highest in Florida. The above rates are per 100,000 people.

Terry
EDIT: I can't get the above chart to separate the way it should be. good luck reading it!

NewOldTimer · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:41 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

Getting out of metro anywhere is the best, and most appealing as far as I'm concerned. Particularly escape from the midwest.

Even after all these years, I still have difficulty when things are to "urban".
I grew up with a 500 acre backyard, and my father still owns 360 acres of that.

I'm so looking forward to retiring to the "backwoods"......
and I likely won't be waiting til retirement age to do so.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:12 pm

Fulltimer wrote:

Check this out Bub! Here is why I stay out of Jacksonville at night.

Jacksonville, FL New Orleans, LA National

Murder: 13.8 37.6 7
Forcible Rape: 27.39 20.18 32.2
Robbery: 289.5 176.5 205.8
Aggravated Assault: 506.5 288.8 336.5
Burglary: 1,208.2 947.9 813.2
Larceny Theft: 3,665 1,212.6 2601.7
Vehicle Theft: 543 664 501.5

Jacksonville's murder rate is the highest in Florida. The above rates are per 100,000 people.

Terry
EDIT: I can't get the above chart to separate the way it should be. good luck reading it!

On the plus side your non-Forcible Rape numbers are very low!

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:37 pm

Hey Full, you almost forgot the most important statistic for staying out of Jacksonville at night.

Fulltimer wrote:

Check this out Bub! Here is why I stay out of Jacksonville at night.

Jacksonville, FL- New Orleans, LA - National

Budke: 1 - 0 - 1
Murder: 13.8 - 37.6- 7
Forcible Rape: 27.39 - 20.18 - 32.2
Robbery: 289.5 - 176.5 - 205.8
Aggravated Assault: 506.5 - 288.8 - 336.5
Burglary: 1,208.2 - 947.9- 813.2
Larceny Theft: 3,665 - 1,212.6 - 2601.7
Vehicle Theft: 543 - 664 - 501.5

Jacksonville's murder rate is the highest in Florida. The above rates are per 100,000 people.

Terry
EDIT: I can't get the above chart to separate the way it should be. good luck reading it!

BugginKJ · **Joined:** Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:35 pm **Posts:** 4576

KJ 119 wrote:

Refreshing to see Michigan has 2 wonderfull cities on that list :ROTFL:

tommudd wrote:

But since this is a JEEP forum...............

Where would any of us be,
no matter if you drive a KJ / KK or Wrangler,
if it were not for Toledo Ohio and its dedicated Jeep employees.

So you can brag about everything else and your State/City being number one in whatever,

But for REAL JEEP ENTHUSIAST'S
There is only One,
TOLEDO OHIO

:goink:

ridenby · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:32 am

yellocoyote wrote:

tommudd wrote:

But for REAL JEEP ENTHUSIAST'S
There is only One,
TOLEDO OHIO

Where you too can do the best paved wheeling in the nation! :wink:

*we have the same problem here too* :cry:

tommudd · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:55 am

yellocoyote wrote:

NewOldTimer wrote:

yellocoyote wrote:

Getting out of metro anywhere is the best, and most appealing as far as I'm concerned. Particularly escape from the midwest.

I'm so looking forward to retiring to the "backwoods"......
and I likely won't be waiting til retirement age to do so.

I hear ya on that.

If not for the job situation, we would have been gone a few years ago. That's why we shoot for the periodic escapes throughout the year. It's to keep some semblance of sanity.

Thats why I have almost 200 acres of Southeast Ohio hills, woods and fields only way to keep my sanity. But most of us have to live where the work is so we can enjoy other pleasures.

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:02 pm

Salt Lake City is in the number 8 spot for WORST DRESSED in the US, so they have something else to be happy about. Boston is number One so that about says it all

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:51 am

tommudd wrote:

Salt Lake City is in the number 8 spot for WORST DRESSED in the US, so they have something else to be happy about. Boston is number One so that about says it all

Hey Tom, here's one they can be proud of:

Salt Lake City: Ranked Number 1 on Planet Earth in the number of horny old men that are masters of brainwashing women and children.

:ROTFL:

Just Sayn'

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:52 am

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