The future is looking very bright in Colorado Springs. Business Week Strongest US Metro Economies
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Colorado Springs, CO
Overall rank: 24
Colorado Springs, the state's second-largest city, is 80 miles south of Denver's International Airport and about 90 minutes east of popular ski resorts. Employment in the Colorado Springs metro peaked in the first quarter of last year. Gross metropolitan product in the second quarter was down just 2.7% from the peak in the third quarter of last year. Home prices were flat in the second quarter compared with the same period a year earlier. And the unemployment rate in June was 8.3%, up 2.4 points from a year earlier. (Please see below for the various criteria used by the Brookings Institution to determine the overall ranking.)
Job growth (since peak) rank: 52
Gross Metro Product (since peak) rank: 20
Unemployment change (year over year) rank: 10
Home price change (year over year) rank: 43
I firmly believe that if the rest of America had any idea how beautiful and fun, filming in Colorado is, we would be over run. I don't care who you are or what your circumstance is. This is The Place.