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Poorly researched.

They kicked Sacramento off the first round "1 million or more" yet there are 2 million in the greater Sacramento area, strong job growth and local economy, affordable housing, and decent tech chops (ok not the Bay Area by a long shot). The SMA has no detectable boundaries between cities; they just blend together.

I wonder how many other cities were eliminated due to poor research.



Sacramento was kicked off for poor job growth, not population. Every city on the list met the population criteria.


Their view of metro area is pretty limited.

The Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA is about million people, and it's barely a top 50 market. There are definately a lot of other markets in a bunch of different places that can compete for this.




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