<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><span>I don't know how attractive the living characteristics are, that's a matter of taste (William Tecumseh Sherman: "If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell"), but they are located in or near population concentrations. The population concentrations probably arose from various historical factors, and most people remain near where they were born. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/migrate/2000pob.html">http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/migrate/2000pob.html</a></span><br><br>Other than that, I agree.<br><div> </div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font
face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br>To shed a little light on the mystery, partly and very generally, as you <br>suggest, one might look at where the work sites are located. The top ten <br>states with the most work sites are CA-45, TX-34, NY-30, NJ-17, FL-16, IL-16, <br>WA-14, VA-12, GA-10, and MA-10. Cities in these states have combinations of <br>attractive living characteristics -- warmer and richer, or colder and richer, <br>and some combination of better educated, more powerful, or hipper culture <br>within higher population densities. The have-not states tend to have lower <br>population densities, lower concentrations of money and power wielders, fewer <br>intellectuals and culture influencers, and less desirable living environments.<br><br>So, I suppose it should not be surprising that the majority of the desirable <br>jobs are located where people want to live. With higher population
densities <br>and two-thirds of the better jobs located in only 10 of the 36 states that <br>have any of the better jobs, it may appear that the cards are stacked against <br>the have-not states. On the other hand, if those states' efforts to improve <br>their situations concentrate on only increasing opportunities for existing <br>businesses, with little new business enterprise recruitment, lower levels of <br>business diversity with fewer newer success stories should be expected.<br><br><br>Ken<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> </span><br> mailto:<a
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