Nice Bohemian Indicator, Milwaukee
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine has a new list of "Best Cities for All Stages of Life" and full city rankings based on cost of living, creative class salary growth and a Bohemian Indicator.
Milwaukee holds its own on the new list with a Bohemian Indicator of 111. This score beat out cities like Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Dayton, Pittsburgh, Houston and even Phoenix.
The Bohemian Indicator shows the concentration of writers, designers, musicians, actors and other arts-related workers, based on the national average being 100. Creativity, of course, drives success in many communities. Boulder, if you were wondering, topped the list with a 201. Â
Other Wisconsin cities on the list include Madison and Green Bay. Both of these cities made the top 25 in various categories, but Green Bay was near the bottom for its Bohemian Indicator. Â
The publication, in partnership with Richard Florida, a professor of public policy at George Mason University, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class," and frequent speaker in Madison and Milwaukee, ranked 167 U.S. metropolitan areas.
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littletinyfish | May 23, 2007 at 9:18 a.m. (report)
I think there is a strong underground arts community in Milwaukee. There are a lot of great ideas floating around, but it just takes some effort to get them off the ground. With a little more support, I could see us rise to a fierce competition with Denver.
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quijote | May 22, 2007 at 7:49 p.m. (report)
It's nice that Mke got a slightly above-average Bohemian indicator, though I'm not sure that "average" is a very flattering benchmark anyway. By the way, Provo-Orem (home of Brigham Young U in Utah) got a Bohemian index of 126! Did the people compiling this ranking actually visit all of these places? Provo-Orem is about as decidedly anti-Bohemian as you can get.
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