I thought this was well worth blogging about for Lake City FL area.

Forbes recently ranked about 141 "micropolitan" towns for thier ability to weather the current economic crisis based on income, unemployment rates, poverty ranking, mortgage debt, and education.

Lake City, FL ranked #2 in Florida!!! only behind Key West.

Out of the 141 micropolitan towns in the survey Lake City ranked #95 overall with the higher number better.

Here is a link to the Lake City Reporter Article.

http://www.lakecityreporter.com/articles/2008/11/09/news/doc49166a61004de174884352.txt

Here is the chart from Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/09/cities-vulnerable-towns-forbeslife-cx_rr_1009vulnerable_chart.html

Hope you find this info interesting, if so, drop me a quick note.

Chad - www.chadstewart.com