bizjournals: Hottest small cities for jobs

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The job market couldn't be better in some areas of the Two areasin Florida, Cape Coral-Fortg Myers and Naples are the hottest job markets in mid-sizecd markets, those with between 100,000 and 250,000 according to the latest job markey rankings from bizjournals and American City Business "The major story in thess places is very rapid population growth, with seasonal residents and tourists comingf in," says Mark Vitner, seniort economist with Wachovia Corp. in N.C. "That has really set off a buildingh boom," he says. "There'ss a mad rush to build infrastructure.
And all the serviced that benefit from increasingpopulation -- financialo services, retail trade, health care -- are all doing well."" If those cities are too big, check Coeu r d'Alene, Idaho, where job growth is 5.9 It's the hottest job market of betweehn 50,000 and 100,000 jobs. For smaller townz of less than 50,00o jobs, the hottest job market is St. George, Utah, where job growtn is 7.1 percent. Coeur d'Alene and St. Georgr are growing as folks leav e the big metro areas of California andmove "A lot of peopler and businesses want to be located in small towns. And for a long they really couldn't do that.
They had to be closd to where theaction was," says Larry Swanson, director of the Cente for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of The Internet has helped make smaller towne more accessible, while California's problemxs have made them more desirable, Swanson says. "Population beganb spilling into the Interior West in the late 1980es andearly 1990s, and what triggered the changs was that the California economy wasn'f working," he says. "Californi a had always been the magnet drawing people to the When its magnetismdropped off, people started looking elsewhere." Bizjournals and America n City analyzed the employment situations in 367 markets, rangin from New York City with 8.
4 million jobs to Ga., with 16,600. The 278 smaller areas, thoser with less than 250,000 jobs each, collectivelg account for about a quarter ofthe nation's totall employment.