Best cities to find work

One definite advantage to finding a job is living in a city or state that has a low unemployment and plenty of jobs. If you find yourself in this category then you are indeed fortunate. However that isn’t the case for most people especially in this economy. It’s easy to say that the solution to this problem is to move where there are more opportunities. If you are young and with little obligations then you should be packing your bags and moving as soon as you can, but if you have a family and connections to a community it can be another matter entirely. Your spouse may have a job they don’t want to leave and your children don’t want to be uprooted and taken away from their friends and schools. It’s a tough decision that some folks do make.


So where are the cities and states with the jobs?

If you have a bit of pioneer spirit and you can rough it out for a while then the oil fields of North Dakota might be for you. In a previous post I wrote about the vast number of jobs available not only in the oil fields but also in the businesses surrounding it. Of course the downside to this type of “modern gold rush” is that the town isn’t really ready for an influx of people moving in which translates to lack of housing and services.

Forbes magazine recently came out with a list of best cities to find jobs. I was surprised that the top city was San Jose, California and Washington D.C. came in second. You would think that any place in California would be ranked high due to their financial problems and Washington seems out of place also because of the cut back in government employees. Forbes uses a ranking system of the number of posts per thousand people to rank the cities.

Usnews.com has also come out with a list of cities with low unemployment, unlike Forbes their list is comprised of smaller cities. The cities were ranked not only by low unemployment but also how much the unemployment has dropped in the past year or so.

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