As you prepare to graduate from college and move into The Real World (you know, that place “where people stop being polite and start being real”), you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what JOB you want to be doing. What COMPANY you want to do it with.
Maybe you need to also spend some time thinking about WHERE you want to work as well.
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According to a survey by WALLETPOP, they’ve done analysis on 150 different places to work and live around the US and have determined the BEST PLACES TO START A CAREER based on a number of factors.
First, let’s look at the OVERALL RANKING OF CITIES for the TOP 20 PLACES TO START A CAREER:
- Washington DC
- Denver
- Irving, TX
- Seattle
- Minneapolis
- San Francisco
- Austin, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Charlotte
- Houston, TX
- Nashville
- St Paul
- Salt Lake City
- Raleigh
- Pittsburgh
- Atlanta
- Aurora, CO
- Jersey City, NJ
- Oakland, CA
- Overland Park, KS
Things get a bit different if you’re looking solely at the QUALITY OF LIFE ranking of the same cities list:
- Atlanta
- Nashville
- Washington, DC
- Seattle
- Raleigh
- Madison, WI
- Charlotte
- Austin
- Denver
- Pittsburgh
- Minneapolis
- Durham, NC
- Lexington, KY
- Tempe, AZ
- Salt Lake City
- Portland, OR
- Orlando
- San Francisco
- Richmond
- Sioux Falls, SD
And if you’re only interested in JOB OPPORTUNITIES, let the QUALITY OF LIFE be damned? Maybe you should check out these 10 cities instead:
- Aurora, CO
- Irving, TX
- Washington, DC
- Oakland
- Denver
- Fremont, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Arlington, TX
- Tacoma, WA
- Grand Prairie, TX
If money is solely what you’re after, check out San Jose CA instad of Brownsville TX.
If you’re on the dating scene, check out Washington DC before you head out to Cape Coral FL.
And if you want to live cheap, the apartments in Springfield MO are significantly less expensive than those in San Francisco.