Portland Made Forbes' Best Big Cities For Jobs List: 04/2009

Best Cities For Jobs 2009 (Least Worst!)

Portland, Vancouver/Beaverton: education and health service growing
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Raleigh City, NC
Salt Lake City, Utah
Seattle/Bellevue-Everett, Wash
Dallas/Plano/Irving-Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas
 Austin-Round Rock, Texas

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/13/best-big-cities-jobs-opinions-columnists-employment_slide_2.html?thisspeed=25000

Portland Is The Seventh Healthiest City According to WebMD

Portland is the 7th healthiest city in America, according to WebMD[1].

[1]http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20090526/which-city-is-americas-fittest

Impressive Statistics About Portland, Oregon

-Portland was the 27th healthiest city of 2008 according to Self Magazine[1]

-Portland was the 44th healthiest city according to WEBMD [2]

-Oregon is the 2nd least corrupt state before Nebraska[3]

-Portland has no sales tax[4][5]

-Portland is the #5 fittest city in America according to Men's Health[6].

-Portland is the #1 most environmentally conscious city in America[7]

-Oregon has a lower tax burden than 25 states. It is ranked at 26th for taxes[8]

-Portland is the #2 bike city in the world[9][10][11]

-Portland is the #13th most educated city in America[12] 

[1]http://www.self.com/health/2008/12/healthy-cities-oregon

[2]http://www.webmd.com/news/20081117/healthiest-us-city-lincoln-neb

[3]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/weekinreview/14marsh.html

[4]http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/bestplaces/compare_tool_2008.jsp?id=PL4159000

[5]http://www.travelportland.com/visitors/visguide/tax_free_shopping.html

[6]http://www.mensfitness.com/city_rankings/462

[7]http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-02/americas-50-greenest-cities?page=1 

[8]http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr163.pdf

[9]http://www.virgin-vacations.com/site_vv/11-most-bike-friendly-cities.asp

[10]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25267048/

[11]http://www.forbestraveler.com/adventure/north-americas-bike-friendly-cities-story.html

[12]http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?article=educatedcities