The percentage of people with primary Irish ancestry tops out at 20% in the Boston metro area, followed by Middlesex County, MA (west of Boston) and Peabody, MA (north of Boston).
In what the researchers said is the largest project to examine leadership and stress, the study recruited 148 leaders and 65 non-leaders from the Boston metro area and from a Harvard executive education program designed for senior-level officials in the public sector, which included members of the military.
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While metro areas like Boston, Chicago and Miami also scored spots on our list, this year's ranking was dominated by California markets, with San Francisco leading the pack.
Expect financial services and lending to pick up by next year, he says, giving a lift to metro areas like Charlotte and Boston.
If JuggleBox can make it in New York, they expect they can at least make it in three other East Coast metro areas shortly thereafter: Boston, Washington DC and Philadelphia.
Artists have been transforming vacant sites into art installations in metro areas from coast to coast from Boston to Detroit to San Francisco.
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But you won't find a better mortgage rate than in Boston, where it's the best of any major metro area, at 4.78%.
The jobless rate in the Boston area has dropped from 8.3% to 7.4%, and in metro Minneapolis has declined from 7.2% to 6.5%.
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Pulte's Del Webb unit, for example, has built 41 of these boomer complexes--in the suburbs of Boston, New York and Chicago, among other places--and now plans to invade metro Atlanta and Minneapolis.
Other metro areas where homes are expected to be at risk of storm surge flooding: Boston, Mass.
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