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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
The technology landscape has changed, according to a recent story published in eWeek online. If you’re still thinking that Northern California’s Silicon Valley is the nation’s high-tech mecca, you’re out of touch.
eWeek recently listed the 10 top cities for technology innovation. But don’t mistakenly think that e-week is the definitive last word. As an eWeek reporter said in its June 15 issue, “There is a ferocious debate among business, employment, technology and urban planning publications of late over the location of the next big U.S. technology hub.”
From the onset, understand that there is no definitive list of cutting- and bleeding-edge technology hubs. All that exists is a bunch of factors that make one place more desirable than another.
Whether you’re an IT project manager, software developer, networking wunderkind, database consultant or software engineer sine qua non, it pays to stay on top of these geographic trends. What’s fascinating about these demographic shifts is that candidate-driven lifestyle priorities are largely responsible for the emergence of these new high-tech centers. The reasoning is as basic as: Why live in an outrageously expensive city like San Francisco or New York when there are dozens of cities that offer a lower cost of living, plus a better lifestyle?
Here are eWeek’s “10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech.” (All the below …
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