Coolest Cities in America

Forbes.com  has compiled a list of America’s Coolest Cities To Live, with Houston taking the number one spot on the list. The city saw 2.6% job growth last year and about 50,000 Americans, particularly young professionals, flocked there in response. Houston has transformed over the past decade with more and more stylish housing developments, restaurants and art galleries popping up all over. The complete list is below:

1. Houston, TX
2. Washington, DC
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. Dallas, TX
5. Seattle, WA
6. San Diego, CA
7. Boston, MA
8. Orange County, CA
9. San Francisco, CA
10. New York, NY
11. San Antonio, TX
12. Chicago, IL
13. Fort Worth, TX
14. Baltimore, MD
15. Philadelphia, PA
16. Oakland, CA
17. Bethesda, MD
18. Minneapolis, MN
19. Austin, TX
20. Denver, CO

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

The 10 Most Flirtatious Cities in America

Theatlantic.com published the list of 10 Most Flirtatious Cities in America as measured online. The list was based on the findings at Badoo, a multi-lingual social networking site with more than 100 million registered users in 180 countries around the world. To determine which cities across the country were hotbeds of Internet activity, Badoo looked at 12 million flirtatious contacts — defined by the researchers as chats initiated with strangers – made during a one-month period.

The 10 most flirtatious cities in America are:
1. Miami
2. Boston
3. San Francisco
4. Tampa (Tied)
4. New York (Tied)
6. Orlando
7. Los Angeles
8. Houston
9. Chicago
10. Phoenix

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

Courtesy of theatlantic.com

The 10 Best Cities for Electric Cars

Thedailygreen.com takes a look at the places where electric cars could have the biggest impact. The article, based on a blog post form General Electric, uses data from the Census Bureau and study the commuting habits of people in the 25 biggest metropolitan areas to determine the 10 best cities for electric cars. It also factors in the percentage of commuters who drive to work and live within 50 miles of the job, and how the region is set up to handle the needs of car commuters.

The 10 cities where electric cars could have the biggest impact are:

Dallas has 2.7 million commuters who live within 50 miles of the city center with 91.5 percent of commuters currently drive to work.

Houston has 2.4 million commuters within 50 miles of downtown, 90 percent of whom drive to work.

Detroit -  92.5 percent of its 1.6 million commuters drive to work. Although Detroit has a inconvenient monorail system, which makes a very circumscribed loop around the core downtown.

St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, Tampa, Cincinnati and Sacramento round out the list.

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

Courtesy of thedailygreen.com

 

NYC Named America’s Richest City

Luxist.com has named NYC as America’s Richest City. According to the new Metro Wealth Index, New York has a record 667,000 high-net worth individuals, or people with $1 million or more in investible assets, recorded as living there in 2009. Rounding out the top 3 are Los Angeles and Chicago. Here are the tallies of millionaires for the top 10, along with the percentage growth from the Wall Street Journal:

New York – 667,200, +18.7%
Los Angeles – 235,800, +13.3%
Chicago – 198,100, +15.1%
Washington, D.C. – 152,400 +19.3%
San Francisco – 138,300 +14.5%
Philadelphia – 104,100, +20.1%
Boston – 102,300, + 14.4%
Detroit – 89,100, +12.1%
Houston –- 88,200, +28.9%
San Jose — 86,500, +24.5%

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.

Courtesy of luxist.com

The World’s Smartest Cities

Forbes.com has release their list of The World’s Smartest Cities. This list of ten cities was elected based on infrastructure, livability and economic fundamentals. Mega-cities like New York and Tokyo were excluded due to “megalopolitian elephantasis“, which is a term urban historians use to describe out of control real estate prices and expanding income disparities.

Four of the ten cities: Seattle, Houston, Charleston, and Huntsville are from the United States. Seattle and Houston make the list with their strong transportation infrastructure along with their use of green energy. Charleston and Huntsville join the list by emerging as major players in the technology sector.

Are you looking for short-term corporate housing in the Seattle, Houston, Charleston, or Huntsville? Please contact us for more information.

Huntsville, Alabama. Photo Courtesy of Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau

Corporate Housing and the Economy: The Facts and Figures

It is safe to say that the corporate housing industry has prevailed through the weak housing market and economic recession. The Corporate Housing Industry Report reported that in 2008 the average daily rate of corporate housing was up 1.2 percent. Although occupancy rates in 2008 dropped slightly to 88.5 percent from 89.7 percent in 2007, the drop did not affect the overall industry. The report also revealed that markets with the greatest growth in corporate housing, include Washington, D.C. , Los Angeles, St. Louis, Houston, and Boston. To delve deeper into how corporate housing has been affected by the economy, check out “Corporate Relocation Responds to the Economy.” The article reveals some interesting aspects of the corporate housing market through an interview between writer Marylyn Schwartz and Jan Hatfield-Goldman, Vice President of Research and Education for Worldwide Employee Relocation Council.