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...Right now, only customers in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas can switch. If you?re town is smaller than Fort Wayne, IN, you must wait until May. Make sure you?re free of your carrier?s contract. If you?ve modified a plan or purchased a phone during the last 12 months, you?re probably under contract. Breaking it, even a month from its end, could cost you $150. Call your current provider to find out; don?t expect your prospective carrier to know - or care - about your contract...
...these towns come up with the jobs? Companies don't move to places like Fargo on a whim; it generally takes money in the form of incentives. Arkansas has spent $700 million on roads and airports around Fayetteville over the past decade. Cities like Fort Myers and Santa Fe, N.M., offer tax-abatement packages to businesses big and small in exchange for creating jobs. So do lots of places, including big cities. That's why livability is often the clincher...
...steel towns had in the past, Wal-Mart has a multiplier effect, creating work for outside service providers. The Tobees want a wedge of that pie. Cary, 39, and Cheryl, 36, moved their video-production business in July to Fayetteville from Fort Smith, Ark., and have already bid on business with Wal-Mart. "I am hoping for the overflow," says Cary. "You never know when they will need help with a project...
Relocators warn that acclimating to smaller-town life can take time, particularly for former city slickers addicted to a fast pace. Carol and Kevin Conway fled their lives as Silicon Valley technology executives in the mid-'90s and now run business-service companies in Fort Myers. At first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
Until the faculty shortage eases, hospitals are finding creative ways to fill the gaps in nurses and technicians. JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, Texas, helped three local schools add 60 spots to their nursing programs by lending its own nurses, on hospital pay, as instructors. Pasco Hernando Community College found that local hospitals were so desperate for nurses that they were willing not only to lend clinical instructors but also to pay tuition and expenses for students who would make a two-year commitment to work as nurses when they graduate...