Here is a great article on our area from Forbes magazine!!  This is great news for our area in a time where doom and gloom seem to be everywhere...but not in TEXAS!!  And look at the unemployment numbers for Austin...Hope you enjoy:

Forbes: Austin remains a bargain

Austin Business Journal

Austin's relative affordability and number of job opportunities has helped it rank first on Forbes.com's list of the nation's best bargain cities.

To determine which U.S. cities are the best bargains, Forbes.com looked at the country's 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Researchers assigned cities points across four data sets: average salary for workers with a bachelor's degree or higher; annual unemployment statistics; cost of living; and the Housing Opportunity Index that measures the amount of homes sold in a given area that would be affordable to a family earning the local median income.

The other major Texas cities--Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Ft. Worth--were also among the top 10 best bargains. But none come close to Austin where the 5.5 percent unemployment rate is the best in the country and about half the national average.