City Rankings

In my CITY RANKINGS, factors that help me score cities for opportunity, prosperity and economic power in the new age of the smartphones include:

• Social infrastructure
• Global connectivity
• Youth (total and %)
• Density (hyperlocal physical connections)
• Smartphone adoption and regulations

PriceWatershouseCoopers (which must be a bitch for the receptionist to say everytime someone calls), released their annual Cities of Opportunities list.

"The successful modern city relies on intelligence and social well-being as much as economic clout—a conclusion that seems not so much to challenge any theory as to confirm common sense," the report said. "New York wins only narrowly, with its real key to success the balance that may have helped it weather the Great Recession."

Yes, I think my list is more accurate.