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Asheville, N.C., and Knoxville, Term., head the dozen areas recommended for retirement. The list does not include a single city in Florida, California, Texas or Arizona. Reason: those Sunbelt states' expensive housing, high crime rates and air-conditioning costs. On the other hand, cities such as Reno, Las Vegas and Dallas-Fort Worth offer the young single person an ideal mix of economic opportunity and outdoor activities...
...Longview and Midland had 15% increases because of greater petroleum activity and a construction boom. Even depressed Detroit, burdened with an estimated 112,000 laid-off auto workers, had openings for practical nurses, receptionists, security guards, machinists and production assemblers. Jobs for construction workers were mainly available in such Sunbelt cities as Phoenix, Greenville, N.C., Houston and Tampa...
...troubled states in the industrial heartland of the Midwest, Michigan is by far the hardest hit. Beset by nationwide recession, the migration of business to the Sunbelt and the auto industry's slump, Michigan had an unemployment rate of 12.7% in October, vs. a national average of 8%. Worse is to come. The University of Michigan's annual Conference on the Economic Outlook two weeks ago projected that the state's unemployment rate would climb...
...construction of industrial robots, computer-aided manufacturing and genetic engineering. Berman also hopes to exploit the state's natural resources of wood and water. He claims enthusiastically that Michigan's borders embrace or touch on 20% of the nation's fresh water, while booming Sunbelt states are running dry. He has not specified, however, how the water can be used or how lower water costs can offset the state's winter fuel costs...
...visitor. South Florida still looks like the Sunbelt's shiniest jewel. New hotels and office towers are rising in Miami, and once sleepy towns near by are growing skylines of their own. The Rolls-Royces still roll royally along Palm Beach's Worth Avenue, and Fort Lauderdale is, as ever, where boy meets girl every aster vacation...