Ian Hodgson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And one of the places that Boston also scored really well is our new energy resilience category.
So that measures things like how much gas increased during the war in Iran, how many people in your community actually rely on their car to get to work.
And on the energy grid side, how many days per year your grid is down, barring the most extreme events?
Right.
The biggest thing that anybody will tell you when you talk about Boston is the cost of living.
Cost of housing is among the worst in the country.
Baseline energy costs there are fairly high.
Food costs are fairly high.
You know, the people I've talked to have said you get a great quality of life living in Boston.
But you do pay for that quality of life.
And housing stock is the biggest issue.
And that's something, you know, when we talk to the mayor, when we talk to the governor of Massachusetts, that's really something that they're focused on remediating over the next few years.
So part of it is our new category, energy resilience.
But most of it comes from changing our methodology a little bit, talking to companies and the feedback we got on previous years was that the workforce and talent component really was a major thing that companies were looking for when they were choosing where to locate companies.
And so we moved our scaling a little bit more towards that category.
And of course, as soon as you put more weight on workforce and talent, Boston shoots up the rankings.
It all comes down to talent right now.
People want to be where the best talent is and where the centers of innovation in this country are.
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