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Washington DC area richest, most educated in US: report
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| Washington area richest, most educated in US: report 2 hours, 23 minutes ago The Washington area has the wealthiest households and most educated work force of any metropolitan area in the United States, according to a report released on Thursday by a local business group. The greater Washington area, including the District of Columbia, and neighboring areas of Maryland and Virginia, had the highest U.S. median household income, at nearly $72,800, ahead of the San Francisco area at $71,201 and Boston at $63,958, according to the report from the Greater Washington Initiative, which cites data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, market data firm Claritas Inc and other sources. The report also found the Washington area, which has seen a major increase in defense-related technology employment in recent years, to have the largest science and engineering work force of any U.S. metropolitan area, at 324,530, ahead of the combined San Francisco and San Jose, California, work force of 214,500 and Chicago at 203,090. The report said 42.5 percent of Washington-area residents have a bachelor's degree and 19 percent have a graduate degree, greater than San Francisco's bachelor's degree rate of 37.3 percent and graduate degree rate of 14.1 percent. Washington also claims the highest percentage of PhDs, at 2.5 percent of the population. Housing costs in greater Washington were ranked 4th, with a 2005 median price of $424,700. San Francisco was highest at $715,700, followed by Los Angeles at $529,000 and New York at $446,000. But measuring total living costs among cities internationally, the report ranked Washington 78th, based on the W.M. Mercer Cost of Living Index for 2005. The most expensive city was Tokyo, while London was third and Paris 12th. Greater Washington had the largest employment growth from 2000 to 2005 at 270,800 jobs, ahead of the Miami area at 208,400 and Atlanta at 47,900. However, Miami ranked tops in 2005 employment growth, at 90,300 versus 71,600 for Washington, 69,100 for Atlanta and 66,400 for Dallas. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060608...y_washington_dc |
Yet none of these smart, rich assholes have the simple, basic skills of merging, passing, and not rubbernecking.
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| Originally posted by occrider Yet none of these smart, rich assholes have the simple, basic skills of merging, passing, and not rubbernecking. |
haha yea, well we do have a lot of bright people in DC. Its funny though, all that ive met so far do drugs.
lol that is funny, yesterday MSNBC had an article on the top 10 most educated cities in American and they had Seattle #1
The people who live in DC are among the most helpless, naive, paranoid, scared, and impressionable I've ever encountered. It's a terrible place to live. In fact I created a thread on this a year ago: Thread Here
Yeah, buts it's sortof stupid to put everybody in the drug user clique. Maybe it's their children, but not the ones who actually worked for the money.
Anyways people in Chicago are not too friendly, neither.
wow ithought atl was growing as u can see day by day how much the city grows... dc and fl must be growing like CRAZY if they are beating us
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| Originally posted by HardTranceProd The people who live in DC are among the most helpless, naive, paranoid, scared, and impressionable I've ever encountered. It's a terrible place to live. In fact I created a thread on this a year ago: Thread Here |
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| Originally posted by LazFX I travel to DC alot for my job, and I kiss the ground every time I get back home. Shallow, paranoid and really stand "offish" one of the most unfriendly place I ever traveled to. Except for Paris. |
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| Originally posted by Kapedan Ive been there alot of times too..but I havent talked to alot of people because mainly I was going to the airport..but Ive heard the same thing from others that its very unfriendly. |
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| Originally posted by metalgearsolid So is a lot of rural areas and suburbs and urban. I have yet to go to one place in the US where I didn't feel discriminated against. |
Education = more informed, probably more intelligent people (usually also more heavily indoctrinated by state propoganda).
Education != better people.
It's not such a hard concept really.
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| Originally posted by metalgearsolid So is a lot of rural areas and suburbs and urban. I have yet to go to one place in the US where I didn't feel discriminated against. Alban, you are the man. |
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| Originally posted by shaolin_Z Education = more informed, probably more intelligent people (usually also more heavily indoctrinated by state propoganda). Education != better people. It's not such a hard concept really. |
. Why educated people really are better people, why they never segregate themselves into social groups where you have to look or have an amount of money to join them. Educated=assholes
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| The Washington area has the wealthiest households and most educated work force of any metropolitan area in the United States, according to a report released on Thursday by a local business group. |
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