Urban theorist Richard Florida named Gainesville one of the top areas in the nation for 2012 college graduates in an analysis based on unemployment rate, professional/tech/creative jobs, salary levels, housing costs, commuting and population of single adults. The top 10:
- San Francisco Bay area
- Silicon Valley
- New York/Newark, N.J./Edison, Pa.
- Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
- Durham, N.C.
- Gainesville
- Ithaca, N.Y.
- Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Trenton-Ewing, N.J.
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Boston/Cambridge, Mass./Quincy, N.H.












