The Raleigh metropolitan area has been named the "Best Place for Business and Careers" for the third straight year by Forbes.com.

Forbes reviewed the 200 largest metropolitan areas in the US and examined 11 different criteria: colleges, cost of doing business, cost of living, crime rate, culture and leisure, educational attainment, income growth, job growth, projected job growth, net migration and subprime mortgages.

The Raleigh Wake County region is strengthened by its outstanding colleges, strong job growth (both past and projected), low business costs and highly educated workforce. Forbes.com points out while Raleigh cannot fully escape the impacts of the current recession, it will be one of the places to lead the nation's economic recovery.

Forbes also has released its list of the top 5 cities where Americans are relocating and Raleigh was again at the top of the list, followed by Austin, Charlotte, Phoenix and Dallas.

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