Worcestershire Journal – Quality of life, we has it.

by Karl - March 27, 2009 4:15am

Why go to Provo when Worcester is so close?

A report in Mas High Tech lets us know that Worcester, Manchester, Bridgeport top ‘quality of life’ study. Mass High Tech’s parent company, American City Business Journals, published an analysis of 124 U.S.mid-sized metropolitan areas. Worcester ranked 29, the best in Massachusetts and third-best in New England.

The full report is available at the bizjournals web site; Mid-sized metros with the best quality of life

FWIW, Des Moines, Iowa came in 10th.

Error: Unable to create directory /home/.guaymas/wstr/realworcester.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02. Is its parent directory writable by the server?Karl Hakkarainen is a writer who resides in Holden and Phillipston. In addition to holding a variety of technical and management positions in high tech, Karl has been a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, and short-order cook. He has maintained a personal blog, A Traveler From the World of Work, since 2004.

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But what do you think?

Jeff

I wouldn’t put too much credibility on a “study” that pegs Worcester’s population at 781,352…

March 27th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Karl

The population is for the Worcester metropolitan statistical area. As best as I can tell from the U.S. census site, this means Worcester County. Even the county numbers seems to be high, but I’ll try to check their math.

March 27th, 2009 at 4:53 am

Worcestershire Journal – Quality of life, we has it.

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