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Date: April 11, 2021 10:49PM
According to the Journal, Salt Lake is the hottest job market in the country. This will bring in loads of gentiles, and alter the religious and political demographics even more. Some excerpts:
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As the pandemic raged through the U.S. in 2020, no metropolitan area in the country expanded the size of its labor force more on a percentage basis than Utah’s capital. It also had the lowest average unemployment rate and the highest share of people working or looking for jobs. These signs of strength helped it rank first among 53 large metro areas... after ranking No. 4 in 2019.
Other cities that emerged as beacons to job seekers and businesses during the pandemic were, like Salt Lake City, located far from the coasts. Hubs... such as Austin, Denver, Indianapolis and Kansas City minimized employment losses...Workers gravitated to these places due to the job opportunities, lower costs and a quieter lifestyle that appealed to some migrants from bigger population centers who were now allowed to work remotely...
The losers were tourist hot spots such as Las Vegas or densely-populated cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago that lost workers as the coronavirus spread. Even once-hot tech hubs of San Francisco, Raleigh, N.C., and Boston suffered declines. Some of these laggards were more aggressive with their business lockdowns, allowing rival metros with fewer restrictions and lower costs to capitalize on the chaos.
Salt Lake City rose to the top thanks to fewer business shutdowns, more moderate health consequences from Covid-19 and a young and well-educated population that supported a tech sector that was already on fire before the pandemic began. Research from the University of Utah found that the state’s tech industry’s job growth averaged 3.6% a year between 2007 and 2017, more than double the national pace during the same period.
The region spanning the neighboring cities of Provo and Salt Lake City had so much momentum over the last decade that it acquired the nickname “Silicon Slopes.” Provo’s labor market ranked No. 17 last year among 328 smaller metro areas with fewer than 1 million residents, according to the Journal’s analysis. Another area north of Salt Lake City, Ogden, was No. 1 among the smaller metros...
The Salt Lake area has a healthy mix of growing startups and well-established companies, plus a strong local university network that serves as a pipeline for younger talent.
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The article profiled a few individual career migrants and local companies, and went on to discuss similar situations with Indianapolis, Orlando, Austin, Denver, and a few others.
I think I provided about 1/3 of the copy on SLC, and much less of the entire item, which is behind a paywall. Anyway, here's the URL:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-can-you-find-a-new-job-try-these-u-s-cities-11617960612?mod=searchresults_pos2&page=1I'm not planning on migrating, though. I'll split my time between my Boston manse* and quiet country estate** in central New England.
*"triple-decker," or "a Dorchester"
**dilapidated [emphasis on "dated"] blueberry farm