America’s Smartest Cities – San Francisco and San Jose
America’s Smartest Cities—From First to Worst – The Daily Beast
#2, SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND-SAN JOSEMetro Area Population: 6,093,729
Daily Beast IQ Score: 165
Like Raleigh-Durham, the Bay Area’s great universities (University of California-Berkeley) spawned a world-class technology hub, and the brains follow. On a per capita basis, the number of people with college and graduate degrees was right at the top. The Bay Area only fell short of No. 1 because of a relatively low score in political engagement, undercutting the reputation of this notorious activist hotspot.
Congrats to the Bay Area for coming in 2nd in America’s Smartest Cities! Woohoo!
Was it any surprise that with all the geniuses at Stanford, Berkeley, De Anza, Google, Sun, Yahoo, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter, Genentech, UCSF that we’d score so high?
Let’s face it, this survey was rigged – “low score in political engagement”? Yeah right. Who cares! We’re too busy changing the world 140 characters at a time, poking each other, and googling!
More importantly, our main enemies rank way below: Seattle is at 7, tied with Washington DC. Our arch nemesis, New York? 13.
Figures. It’s full of idiots. If it weren’t… then there wouldn’t be anyone left because only smart people live in the Bay Area. (And sometimes Raleigh apparently.)
(Thanks to the multiple Burbed readers who sent this in!)
November 1st, 2009 at 9:21 am
Being intelligent doesn’t make you smart.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:47 am
What I have seen, “smart people” mostly prefer to own than rent, and smart people value education for their children. Smart people also tend to be competitive. You put all these things together, and everybody is looking at the same places to live.
November 1st, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Smart people know that bay area real estate is a great investment!
November 1st, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Bay Area may be smart; however, many made irrational home purchases during the largest real estate bubble in modern history. Some on this blog continue to spew irrational home buying advice given the current conditions.
November 1st, 2009 at 5:50 pm
#1 – you wouldn’t know a smart person if they hit you in the face
November 1st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
#5, I’m smacking you in the face
burbed, UCSF and Stanford are full of ideets. LOL
November 1st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Before getting engaged in politics, you need to earn your first billion$$. Then, you can retire and buy the GOP nomination for the governor.
That’s the RBA way.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Coco,
I prefer to become governor the Democrat way — promise people all sorts of entitlements in exchange for votes.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
, and smart people value education for their children.
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Except someone who wasted most his life driving taxi in Madison Ave and now losing the bids in crappy part of Sunnyvale.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Smart people know that bay area real estate is a great investment!
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And it requires a great amount of smartness to parrot NAR’s line “it’s right time to buy”.