No. 10 - Washington, D.C.
No. 9 - Charlotte, N.C.
No. 8 - Seattle, WA
No. 7 - San Francisco, CA
No. 6 - Philadelphia, PA
No. 5 - Omaha, NE
No. 4 - New York, NY
No. 3 - Colorado Springs, CO
No. 2 - Boston, MA
No. 1 - Baltimore, MD
No. 5 - Omaha, NE
Median monthly rent: $711 (nat. average, $817)
Median income (2009): $27,075 (nat. average, $30,402)
Income growth (2005 to 2009): 3.5%
Unemployment rate: 5.1% (nat. average, 9.2%)
Percentage of residents ages 20-24: 6.9% (nat. average, 7.0%)
No. 5 for grads - Omaha, NE
Omaha's metro area population comes in at 829,702. Five Fortune 500 Companies -- Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), Union Pacific (UNP), Mutual of Omaha, ConAgra Foods (CAG) and Peter Kiewit Sons -- call Omaha home, and the city offers thousands of high-paying, high-skilled jobs in finance, defense and information technology. Starting salaries go further in the Midwest: Omaha's rock-bottom rents put a two-bedroom apartment within easy reach of most recent grads, and the cost-of-living falls way below that of the other cities on our list. Omaha also offers a surprising mix of culture and nightlife, especially in the trendy Old Market arts district and the dozens of jazz, rock and indie-rock clubs downtown.
Pros: Low unemployment rate, low crime rate, short commutes
Cons: Limited public transit system, low median income overall
Kiplinger: 10 Great Cities for New College Grads
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I'll even be generous on what we call both downtown and nightclubs and try to put a list together of places to see live music regularly:
Sokol
Slowdown
Orpheum
Holland
Qwest
Myth
Your Mom's (the old Downtown Blues, although not much longer I'm told)
Dubliner
Side Door
The Max, if you count Lady Gaga showing up
Lewis & Clark Landing
Anchor Inn
LOL.... Â I'm hoping I'm completely out of the loop, because if that's the loop, that article is nuts.
Sokol
Slowdown
Orpheum
Holland
Qwest
Myth
Your Mom's (the old Downtown Blues, although not much longer I'm told)
Dubliner
Side Door
The Max, if you count Lady Gaga showing up
Lewis & Clark Landing
Anchor Inn
LOL.... Â I'm hoping I'm completely out of the loop, because if that's the loop, that article is nuts.
Stable genius.
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The Capitol LoungeBig E wrote:I'll even be generous on what we call both downtown and nightclubs and try to put a list together of places to see live music regularly:
Sokol
Slowdown
Orpheum
Holland
Qwest
Myth
Your Mom's (the old Downtown Blues, although not much longer I'm told)
Dubliner
Side Door
The Max, if you count Lady Gaga showing up
Lewis & Clark Landing
Anchor Inn
LOL.... I'm hoping I'm completely out of the loop, because if that's the loop, that article is nuts.
The 49'er
Ranch Bowl
Howard Street Tavern
The White Rabbit
The Music Box
The Cog Factory
Hotel Frank
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Saddle Creek BarGlobochem wrote:The Capitol LoungeBig E wrote:I'll even be generous on what we call both downtown and nightclubs and try to put a list together of places to see live music regularly:
Sokol
Slowdown
Orpheum
Holland
Qwest
Myth
Your Mom's (the old Downtown Blues, although not much longer I'm told)
Dubliner
Side Door
The Max, if you count Lady Gaga showing up
Lewis & Clark Landing
Anchor Inn
LOL.... I'm hoping I'm completely out of the loop, because if that's the loop, that article is nuts.
The 49'er
Ranch Bowl
Howard Street Tavern
The White Rabbit
The Music Box
The Cog Factory
Hotel Frank
The Junctionalmighty_tuna wrote:Saddle Creek BarGlobochem wrote:The Capitol LoungeBig E wrote:I'll even be generous on what we call both downtown and nightclubs and try to put a list together of places to see live music regularly:
Sokol
Slowdown
Orpheum
Holland
Qwest
Myth
Your Mom's (the old Downtown Blues, although not much longer I'm told)
Dubliner
Side Door
The Max, if you count Lady Gaga showing up
Lewis & Clark Landing
Anchor Inn
LOL.... I'm hoping I'm completely out of the loop, because if that's the loop, that article is nuts.
The 49'er
Ranch Bowl
Howard Street Tavern
The White Rabbit
The Music Box
The Cog Factory
Hotel Frank
The Stork Club
Mick's
etc.
But seriously, the music scene is mostly in Benson, not Downtown. Â
Waiting Room
PS Collective
The Sidney
Burkes
and Barley Street
Not bad.
I hear CVS is having live music in the parking lot every Sunday evening.Globochem wrote:The Capitol LoungeBig E wrote:I'll even be generous on what we call both downtown and nightclubs and try to put a list together of places to see live music regularly:
Sokol
Slowdown
Orpheum
Holland
Qwest
Myth
Your Mom's (the old Downtown Blues, although not much longer I'm told)
Dubliner
Side Door
The Max, if you count Lady Gaga showing up
Lewis & Clark Landing
Anchor Inn
LOL.... I'm hoping I'm completely out of the loop, because if that's the loop, that article is nuts.
The 49'er
Ranch Bowl
Howard Street Tavern
The White Rabbit
The Music Box
The Cog Factory
Hotel Frank
Stable genius.
Any list that has Baltimore as number one should automatically lose its credibility. Â One of the most dangerous cities in America being the best city for new college grads? Â I don't think so. Â All of the other choices seem to make a lot of sense though. Â Omaha seems like the odd man out, though.
I can't argue with the fact that there is a cray-cray amount of gang violence in Baltimore. Â But Baltimore's crime, much like Omaha's, is heavily concentrated in two areas, neither of which will you ever find yourself in accidentally.
South Baltimore and all areas around the harbor are fantastic.
South Baltimore and all areas around the harbor are fantastic.
Stable genius.