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by micro_cam 4344 days ago
Any one have an interactive heatmap of the same data on a county or census block level? That visualization makes it hard to explore finer grained trends.

Googeling around for one I found this article which picks out the inland west as the fastest growing region in the nation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2013/09/04/a-map-of-a...

But one of the job hubs they mention, Boise, didn't make the NY times vis.

My own experience is that, when considering cost of living and quality of life, it is hard to beat the northern rockies.