At least that’s the way the latest Newsweek describes Raleigh and nine other cities, “the 10 American cities best situated for the recovery. These are places where the jobs are plentiful, and the pay, given the lower cost of living, buys more than in bigger cities.”

The magazine offers Raleigh-Durham another label, lumping the Triangle, Salt Lake City, and urban Northern Virginia into a group dubbed the “New Silicon Valleys.”

It’s a good thing Newsweek didn’t focus on the business tax climate.