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Corporate giants like Intel, Novell, NuSkin and Gateway Computers certainly knew what they were doing when they made homes in Utah. They were attracted to the Beehive State for a number of reasons, such as Utah’s:

People are talking about Utah County. Money magazine has said:

· “If you imagine Provo and Orem as quaint, rural hamlets, consider this: The area is home to more than 80 software companies. . . This may be the best educated county in the nation as well.” (September 1991, p. 139)

· “Newcomers can’t resist the region’s bang-up combination of economic strength and it striking location... People also feel safe here.” (September 1994)

· Provo has remained on the magazine’s top 35 of the best places to live in the nation for 6 consecutive years.

· Provo was also deemed one of the best cities for future job growth. (October 1999).

· Money magazine is not alone. Forbes magazine said, “(Utah County) has become the site of something unexpected and undeniably important for American High Technology.

· U.S. News & World Report said, “Utah is emerging as one of the nation’s premier high-tech meccas, with more software enterprises than California’s Silicon Valley and one of the nation’s largest concentrations of biotech companies.” The magazine also said that “The Beehive State (Utah) is also a veritable job machine that, for the most part, sidestepped the protracted recession.” (February 23, 1993)

· And the Economist described Utah County as “the world’s second-biggest swathe of software and computer-engineering firms after California’s Silicon Valley.” (April 23, 1994)