It is according to Forbes. Columbus has come a long way from being called a cow town – thanks to that OSU farm photo years ago – to now being suggested as one of the regions to watch in 2012 for technology growth.
Read the complete Forbes article
Here’s what Forbes said about Columbus (#4 heading, under Technosphere):
Unfortunately for the rest of California, and even more blue-collar Bay Area communities like San Jose and Oakland, high costs and an unfavorable regulatory environment will keep this bubble geographically constrained. Historic patterns, particularly over the past decade, suggest that as the core tech companies expand, they are likely to head to business-friendly places such as Salt Lake City, Raleigh and Columbus, Ohio, which have picked up both tech companies and educated migrants from California.
Recently Jerry Brown, the California Governor, appealed for more tax increases to assist their ailing economy. Governor Kasich tweeted that he welcomed California companies to come to Ohio where our business climate was now friendlier.
Having lived in central Ohio most of my life, and enduring the years that some media have made fun of us, I’m really proud to have this new designation from Forbes. How about you?
Photo blogs have become a side-feature for some Realtors®. We already have our cameras with us in the car so taking non-real estate photos is easy for us to do throughout our daily travels. These photo blogs provide a nice visual to what non-residents can expect to see locally, plus, as I’ve had people tell me, some of the photos I’ve taken give a different perspective that locals take for granted.
The problem with polls …
When I hear the news media cite the results of the most recent political polls, I tend to be skeptical. In fact, when I read the results of any poll, I like to also read HOW the survey was conducted. Very often that review reveals information that would suggest the poll could be skewed to generate whatever results the pollster was seeking.
Perhaps the main reason that I really question poll results is that so many rely on landline phones. How many people do you know that no longer have a landline phone? Or if they do, how many are likely to answer the phone and take the time to answer a pollster’s questions? Especially in today’s world where we’re so concerned with identity theft.
I thought of my own little immediate family, which I consider rather normal … for the most part.
If a pollster were to put the 10 of us into neat little boxes, here’s how we would stack up:
If you were to do a similar “poll” of your family, what would the results look like? Do you think those phone polls are capturing a “representative sampling” of the population?
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