Austin Leading Recovery

A recent report by the Brookings Institution assesses how metropolitian areas around the world performed during the current global economic downturn. Here is a quick summary from the Austin Chamber of Commerce showing the top US cities. Does your city make the list?Living in Austin, it certainly gives me one more reason to be grateful for where I live given that it was ranked number one. If your city isn't on the list, hopefully it will be turning around soon. I think we'll all be happy to see this "Great Recession" behind us as soon as possible!

If you'd like to see how you stack up internationally, here's is a chart from the global summary showing the top 75 cities.

Of course if you'd like all the details, I'd check out the entire report.

Facebook Likely to Move Here

The Austin Business Journal is reporting that it looks likely that Facebook will open a 200-person office here. Why Austin?

“Facebook continues to grow and Austin, with its deep talent pool, would allow us to hire the high-caliber employees we need to properly serve the people, advertisers and developers that rely on our service,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said.

We'd love to have them! Austin is a great place to live.