Best performing cities list

I confess, I am sucker for things like this: The Milken Institute's 2009 Best Performing Cities

Austin-Round Rock, TX takes the prize.

Apparently, I live in the East Coast's top-performing metro area. That is especially surprising considering that Durham almost always falls short of Raleigh on these lists.

Texas, for some reason, claims 4 out of the top 5 spots in both the large and small metro area lists.