COLUMBIA, 7/24/11 (Beat Byte) -- Columbia, Missouri is
the number eight Best Small City for Business, says Forbes Magazine in a
new ranking of the top 25 most business-friendly large and small cities --
metropolitan areas with less than 250,000 people -- released this month.
With 14 midwestern cities and several college towns on the small cities
list, Manhattan, Kansas (home of K-State) was tops; Lafayette, Indiana, home of
Purdue University, was No. 11; Iowa City, Iowa (University of Iowa) ranked
13th.
For the rankings, Forbes considered past and projected job
growth; cost of doing business; the cost of living; income
growth; educational attainment; projected growth; quality of life; crime rate;
cultural and recreational opportunities; net migration patterns; and
highly-ranked colleges.
On Forbes' big-cities list, Raleigh, N.C., came in first, followed by Des
Moines, Iowa. St. Louis ranked 23rd.
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