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On yahoo.com today, a Kiplinger’s report features several lists of 10 best cities.

The one I thought I’d find Pittsburgh in was the 10 best cities for the next decade. The top three were Austin, Seattle and Washington, D.C. I scrolled...Boulder, Salt Lake City, Rochester, Des Moines... kept scrolling... Burlington, Vt. West Hartfort, Conn. and Topeka, Kan.

The sub-headline was “They’re prosperous, innovative, and they’ll generate plenty of jobs, too.”

The key element to the success of these cities, beyond smart people and great ideas, is collaboration, reported Kevin Stolarick, research director at the Martin Prosperity Institute, a think tank that studies economic prosperity.

The report continues:

In Kiplinger’s latest search for top cities, we focused on places that specialize in out-of-the-box thinking,” he said in the report. “New ideas generate new businesses. In the places where innovation works, it really works.”

“After researching and visiting our 2010 Best Cities, it became clear that the innovation factor has three elements. Mark Emmert, president of the University of Washington in Seattle, put his finger on two of them: smart people and great ideas. But we’d argue that it’s the third element -- collaboration -- that really supercharges a city’s economic engine. When governments, universities and business communities work together, the economic vitality is impressive.”

Read more: http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/10-best-cities-2010-for-the-next-decade.html#ixzz0yNiSWSmy

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10-great-cities-for-raising-families.html

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