Cities with healthy tech and energy industries and their healthy job numbers and wages rank them among the top best-performing cities, according to Milken Institute’s 2013 “Best Performing Cities” index.
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas, topped the list of the 200 largest U.S. metros Milken looked at, followed by Provo-Orem, Utah; San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, Calif.; San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.; and Salt Lake City.
Source: The Atlantic Cities