And I hope cities and towns across this country follow in your example.
"I think cities and counties are very open-minded about what they're willing to work out and how the system might be streamlined, " said Delna Jones, county commissioner of Washington County, Ore.
While I researched options, I also checked the weather in cities that I knew I could connect through, in order to avoid further issues.
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"The cities I've talked to don't believe there are enough choices, " Cole Reinwand, a vice president at Earthlink, says.
In some cities I visited recently (including Nottingham and Sheffield) there was no sense at all that a campaign was under way.
We have about 45, 000 people using the system now in the four cities I mentioned, and we have 75 businesses contracted with about 55 businesses operating.
That does not fully explain my Albany problem, since the cities I wanted are up, nor the feedback issue, but it does expain the one-way problem, which is coming.
"I think capital cities around the UK all have film units now and they are good as they make it much easier for a production to deal with one agency in a city to secure permission to film in streets and buildings, " said Mr Morris, who started his career as a filmmaker for Channel 4.
"I always heard about shootings in cities but never felt a connection because I live in the country, " Reeves says.
"At present, if I detour the big cities and miss the most dangerous roads, it is looking like a total of 7, 000 or more miles, " said Mr Boon.
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Faster than both rural areas and the cities and I think that people might find this surprising because they're used to hearing certain storylines like, for example, Detroit, like the collapse of the auto industry or the withdrawal of certain kinds of jobs from city areas, but I think most people would have assumed that those jobs, if they went anywhere, went to the suburbs.
And, last spring, along with Karl Case of Wellesley College and Anne Thompson of McGraw-Hill Construction, I conducted a detailed survey of the attitudes of recent home buyers in four American cities, as I discussed here in October.
Today, I live and work in Philadelphia, PA, one of the best cities in the world (I can't even complain about the sports teams these days).
Or, as housing experts I spoke to fretted, cities may not have the infrastructure to set up or monitor affordability restrictions.
In pursuit of my dream career, I have moved to new cities by myself, met amazing people, had exciting experiences and even got some world travel in along the way.
In retrospect, the meal that heralded the new green cuisine now sprouting up in most major European cities was one I had 20 years ago, at chef Pietro Leemann's Joia, in Milan.
There are significant variances between cities, and I think Chanos is underestimating the poor quality of current housing (has he spent a night in local Beijing housing yet?), the pent up demand to upgrade, and the increasing urbanization of rural suburbs.
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In the end, though, it seems to me that the threads common to successful cities (and I would define both Houston and San Francisco as successful) are a well educated population and an openness to new ideas that lead to entrepreneurial spirit.
"I was incredibly proud that this piece of the Potteries exists in the middle of one of the most amazing cities in the world, but I suspect there are a lot of people in Stoke who don't know about it, " he said.
I've been to the cities and seen bosses eating in fancy restaurants every day.
Since May 2012, I have been investigating why some cities and regions have more start-up activity than others.
In my last piece I cited studies in specific big cities including New York, LA, Miami and Boston.
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Decades later, I arrived in one of those cities my hometown of Chicago. (Applause.) South Side!
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But I've seen something else as I've gone through those cities and towns.
When I wrote about innovation policy challenges yesterday I noted how important towns and cities are in forging the new economy.
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