... Second the Best

In Money Magazine's annual Top Ten Best Big Cities list, published online yesterday, Austin came out in second place. Oddly enough, we weren't anywhere near the top for their separate rankings of metrics like Job Growth, Skinniest, Youngest, Safest, and Most Singles. According to the magazine's survey, our population of nearly 700,000 (over half of whom are college educated) has a healthy median age of just under 31 and spends almost $7000 a year on vacations.

Heaps of additional data can be found here.

The Top Ten:

• 1 Colorado Springs, CO
  
• 2 Austin, TX
  
• 3 Mesa, AZ
  
• 4 Raleigh, NC
  
• 5 San Diego, CA
  
• 6 Virginia Beach, VA
  
• 7 Omaha, NE
  
• 8 Columbus, OH
  
• 9 Wichita, KS
  
• 10 New York, NY

Photo by Matt Wright on flickr