America’s fastest-growing cities 2012

Forbe’s America’s Fastest-Growing Cities highlights a list of cities that aren’t just growing, but creating opportunities. To construct this list, Forbes pulled data from Moody’s Analytics on the 100 largest metropolitan areas, giving extra weight to projected economic growth and subtracting points for low median incomes and high unemployment rates. Texas once again dominates Forbes’ list of America’s Fastest-Growing Cities, as the Lone Star State capitalized on low taxes and cheap real estate to draw in jobs from the rest of the country. The top 3 cities are Austin, Texas; Dallas Texas; and San Jose, CA.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing in convenient locations  Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 for more information.

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Five Best RSS Newsreaders

Lifehacker.com has highlighted the five best RSS newsreaders in the current market. For the non tech savvy, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available.

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The Ultimate Guide to Halloween in Washington 2011

Washingtonian.com provides a great guide for celebrating Halloween in the Washington D.C area with a list of haunted houses, fun parties and family-friendly events. Some highlights include the Halloween Graveyard Jam at the Hard Rock Cafe geared toward young professionals with costume prizes, drinking games, dancing and much more. A Haunted Scavenger Hunt will take place near Lafayette Park where participants will be armed with only a flashlight and visit spook-infested buildings. The Butler’s Orchard Pumpkin Festival offers fun for the whole family – pumpkin picking, petting zoo, hay rides, live music and seasonal treats.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available throughout Washington D.C. and  Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 for more information.

 

Churchill Expands Its Portfolio of Luxury Apartments With New DC Location

Churchill is proud to announce that the company has expanded its presence in the Washington DC area with new inventory at Twenty400, a luxury apartment community located in Arlington, VA. Recently opened in the winter of 2011, Twenty400 offers a distinctively different apartment experience for those who want to live in the heart of Arlington. The location is ideal with Interstate 395 right next door, residential and commuter bus routes stop at your door, and the Army/Navy Country Club just around the corner. Located in the midst of three longstanding communities in Arlington, Twenty400 also places residents just minutes away from the exciting shops, restaurants and amenities of Shirlington. This smoke-free community also offers an enormous array of amenities in a garden-style environment with beautiful finishes.

Rent the Country of Liechtenstein

Airbnb, a service that describes itself as the “eBay for space,” has the country of Liechtenstein for rent. The cost of renting Liechtenstein starts at $70,000 a night. The cost includes accommodations for 150 people and “basic branding” like renaming city streets and town squares, printing your own temporary currencies, carving logos into the snow on the mountainside, be welcomed with a custom medieval festival, or be greeted by marching bands and mayors who will present you with the key to the city.

If you are looking to rent something smaller than Liechtenstein, Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

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Eight World Cities and How Much They Cost to Live In

Matadornetwork.com has an interesting article about Eight World Cities and How Much They Cost to Live In. The article features cities like San Francisco, USA; Salta, Argentina; Vancouver, Canada; Cairo, Egypt; La Linea de la Concepcion, Spain; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Ulsan, South Korea; and Melbourne, Australia. A major takeaway is that San Francisco, Vancouver and Melbourne have some of the highest rent in the world while the cost is similar around the world except for Cairo, where the price is significantly less.

Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

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America’s Worst Commutes

AOL has published a list of  America’s Worst Commutes based on GPS and smartphone tracking data from a company called INRIX. The list contains 20 of the worst commutes. The top 5 worst commutes are:

5. Bruckner/Cross Bronx Expressways (I-95 southbound) in New York
4. I-95 southbound in Washington DC
3. California Delta Highway/Calif. Highway 4 westbound in San Francisco
2. Lunalilo Freeway/I-1 eastbound in Honolulu
1. Riverside Freeway/Calif. Highway 91 eastbound in Los Angeles

Churchill has short-term apartment rentals nationwide. Please call us at 866-255-0593 for more info.

Visualizing LA traffic

A traffic animation created by using Waze data shows hazards and traffic of Los Angeles as reported by Waze users in a 24 hour span. Waze is a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road. The video begins at 5pm and ends 24 hours later; the data really begins to explode as people rush to work around 7am.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or National@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

New Yorkers’ New York

Natonalgeographic.com’s New Yorkers’ New York is a guide to New York City written by a NYC resident who has been living in the city for approximately 40 years. She recommends visitors to “lose the  list of must-see attractions” and instead “get to know the city’s neighborhoods.” Some of the highlighted neighborhoods are Upper East Side famous for its museums, the fine dining in Hell’s Kitchen and  the culture/history of Greenwich Village.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available in New York Cityand Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or NewYork@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

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5 Ugliest Airports in the U.S.

Thestreet.com has published a list of the 5 Ugliest Airports in America. They surveyed 5,718 people and the majority (24%) voted LaGuardia Airport as the ugliest airport in the United States. Other airports that made the list were Los Angeles International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and Kennedy International Airport.

Churchill has short-term corporate housing available in New York City and Nationwide. Please contact us at 866-255-0593 or NewYork@FurnishedHousing.com for more information.

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