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How companies decide where to move.

January 1, 2009

There's no shortage of city rankings available to companies that might want to pull up stakes. In the aggregate they provide an almost dizzying amount of information that might influence expansion or relocation plans. Want to know which U.S. city is the least expensive, or the most tax-friendly to corporations, or creates the most jobs, or even which one is likely to make you richest? There's a list for all those metrics, and more. Heed the rankings and you could land in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Saginaw, Mich.; Provo, Utah; or Plano, Tex. Read more...

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