Boise Ranked #9 By Forbes!

March 25, 2009. Boise rated #9 by Forbes Magazine for Best Places For Business And Careers. Forbes.com says Boise is the ninth best place among 200 largest metropolitan areas in the country for business and careers. Forbes rated cities based on 11 criteria. They include job growth over time, labor supply, crime rates, and local colleges. Forbes also included two new statistics to its annual survey: job projections and the ratio of subprime mortgages to loan originations for the last three years. Boise ranked in 17th place as the lowest cost of doing business and the in the country and 47th best projected job growth at 0.5 percent. Forbes found nearly 17 percent of mortgages written between 2005 and 2007 fell into the sub-prime category compared to Huston TX at 22.7%, Baton Rouge LA at 21.5%, and Chicago IL at 22.7%. Overall, Boise has a bright future and will continue to grow.

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