To take the temperature of how "cool" your community is for talent, we've developed a tool that measures 7 indexes that attract talent. "Around Town" is one of those indexes.
Around Town
This index measures two factors: how easy is it to get around town? And, how close are you to a large urban center? Young talent may be perfectly happy to live in smaller communities if they're accessible to the shopping, eating, and entertainment option available in bigger metros.
To achieve a high score in the Around Town index, ask:
- How close am I (in miles) to the next big metro?
- Is there reliable highway, train, or airport connectivity to larger metros?
- Do we have rush hours or rush minutes in our community?
- Is my community friendly to bikers and pedestrians?
FYI - From American Demographics Magazine:
Bumper to Bumper:
A report released in June 2002 by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) revealed that the congestion problem on America's urban roads is reaching a crisis point. IN fact, in the 75 metro areas studies, the average amount of time roadways were congested to the point that they closed traffic increased to roughly 8 hours a day in 2000, up from just 4.5 hours in 1982. Los Angeles has the longest "rush hour" in the nation with 10.8 hours of congested traffic in an average day. San Fran has the second worst with 9.8 hours, followed by Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego and Washington DC, each with 9.6 hours of congestion.
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