While the average gain was impressive, some cities did exceedingly well while others languished.
Registrations periods vary: Some cities make you wait longer to set up shop than others.
Some cities, states, regions, companies and industries are growing well above the GDP figure.
Why do some cities arise as fast-growth entrepreneurial hot spots while others stagnate or decline?
Some cities, including Washington DC, now have excellent equipment and coordination while others don't.
The new rules include higher down payments and mortgage rates on second homes in some cities.
Some cities, such as Beijing, have announced increases in their minimum wages of up to 20%.
Small groups of desperate dwellers in some cities held out behind hastily thrown-up palisades.
And in some cities the poor are poorer and the rich richer than the national average.
After the war, accordingly, the Allies banned the Grimm tales from the school curricula in some cities.
And the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off, and even declined in some cities and states.
Some cities, like Kansas City and Denver, colonized neighboring communities to expand their demographic and economic power.
Some cities in the rich world, too, have been much more successful than others at exploiting globalisation.
Since May 2012, I have been investigating why some cities and regions have more start-up activity than others.
While that is less than some cities host during year-end festivities or Carnival, questions about public safety still remain.
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Instead, it will strike different regions in very different ways, likely boosting some cities while falling flat in others.
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But the low turnouts (only 10-15% in some cities) favoured the religious conservatives.
Pressure on school places is growing in some areas, particularly in some cities.
Top speeds in some cities have already gone from 30 to 50 megabits per second, without picking up a shovel.
The technology was slow to take off, as some cities found it difficult to integrate preemption with antiquated traffic-light controllers.
Additionally, some cities and counties have sales tax on top of state sales tax and there are differences here as well.
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Housing prices are up by as much as 10% in some cities, excluding the major urban centers, year over year.
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Some cities, such as Cambridge, York, Edinburgh and Oxford have already made some inroads into their traffic problems by these methods.
But the urban economy relies on migrant labour, and some cities have been much more adroit than Beijing in providing schools.
And although they agree roughly in the case of some cities, they give us two very different answers in regards to others.
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In some cities and towns across America, unemployment is closer to 15%.
In some cities, zoning and short-term rental laws make P2P hospitality illegal.
And some cities might take the plunge if the central government offered to lift the curbs it has placed on property speculation.
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In California last year, proposals to let local governments ban circumcision made it onto the ballots in some cities, including San Francisco.
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