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The Top 10 Cities for New College Grads

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The Top 10 Cities for New College Grads
8. Omaha, Nebraska
College grads moving to Omaha should have no problem finding work. Omaha’s job market ranked fifth overall out of any city in our study, thanks to the third lowest unemployment rate for workers with a bachelor’s degree and the second lowest unemployment rate overall. Graduates with a degree in computer science and other tech-centric disciplines will find Omaha particularly welcome: SmartAsset’s 2014 study of tech jobs found that Omaha was the nation’s best city for tech workers.
Top Ten Best American Cities to Work in Tech
9. Lincoln, Nebraska
Just half a point behind Omaha, Lincoln has a similarly strong job market, with an unemployment rate under 3%, lowest of any major city in the country. Lincoln is home to the University of Nebraska, and the Cornhuskers are the main event on autumn Saturdays. New arrivals are encouraged to catch a Huskers game at Memorial Stadium, which has sold out every home football game since 1962.
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Also:

Top Ten Best American Cities to Work in Tech
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha has five Fortune 500 companies – a full one percent of the entire index – headquartered within its city limits. Four of them are global-scale firms which need a lot of tech infrastructure support (food manufacturer ConAgra, America’s biggest train operator Union Pacific, construction goliath Kiewit, and national insurers Mutual of Omaha), and the fifth is Warren Buffett’s holding company (a phrase which hardly does the scale of the thing justice) Berkshire Hathaway.
Omaha benefits from average internet speeds of 35.6 megabytes per second, which is 50 percent greater than the national average. The costs of living there are a mere 88.3 percent of the national average, 3.8 percent of all Omaha workers are tech employees, and those tech workers make 74 percent more than the city average.
Besides the diversity and strength of the industries in Omaha, which also include the country’s largest privately-held bank, numerous energy producers and the Gallup polling organization, some draws of the city are its frontier history and the NCAA Baseball College World Series tournament.
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How the heck does Des Moines rank 61 in fun and Omaha 44? I found Des Moines very sterile.
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lisanstan wrote:How the heck does Des Moines rank 61 in fun and Omaha 44? I found Des Moines very sterile.
I was wondering the same thing. My feeling of Des Moines is that it is all cookie-cutter. There aren't that many things that are very unique to Des Moines. The nicest part of the city is W. Des Moines and Jordan Creek and of that is just chain stores.
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Fun. Is there stuff to do in this place? We developed this score using data on the concentration of young people (ages 20-29) in each city, the concentration of entertainment establishments (like bowling alleys, casinos, theaters, etc.), the concentration of bars and restaurants and the average Yelp star-rating of bars and restaurants.
Des Moines must have more bowling alleys.
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skinzfan23 wrote:
lisanstan wrote:How the heck does Des Moines rank 61 in fun and Omaha 44? I found Des Moines very sterile.
I was wondering the same thing. My feeling of Des Moines is that it is all cookie-cutter. There aren't that many things that are very unique to Des Moines. The nicest part of the city is W. Des Moines and Jordan Creek and of that is just chain stores.
Adventureland? :D
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The location of the State Fair is worth 20pts in their rankings
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But Adventureland is the Des Moines of amusement parks, shouldn't even been considered.
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MTO wrote:But Adventureland is the Des Moines of amusement parks, shouldn't even been considered.
Touche'.
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Again? :mrgreen:
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Professor Woland wrote:
skinzfan23 wrote:
lisanstan wrote:How the heck does Des Moines rank 61 in fun and Omaha 44? I found Des Moines very sterile.
I was wondering the same thing. My feeling of Des Moines is that it is all cookie-cutter. There aren't that many things that are very unique to Des Moines. The nicest part of the city is W. Des Moines and Jordan Creek and of that is just chain stores.
Adventureland? :D
Des Moines, the Lincoln of Iowa.
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