On May 13, 2009, Forbes.com announced their listings for the Best Bargin Cities. To get the rankings, Forbes took the country's 50 largest U.S. metropolitan statistical areas and assigned points to metro regions across 4 data areas: average salary for workers with a bachelor's degree or higher, annual unemployment stats, cost of living, and housing indexes. Austin earned high marks in all catagories. Austin's 5.5 unemployment, the University of Texas, and the fact that it is the state capitol played into the rankings. This information should make our city look very good to businesses that are looking for a place to move their company or to expand. And of course, whenever new business comes to our area, new home buyers will follow. Let's all work together to keep Austin the kind of city that will attract new business and new home buyers and keep our economy robust.