A balanced life
We’ve got a good thing going here in the Corridor. The housing is more affordable, the public schools are good and the living is easier.

Writing in the July/August 2004 issue of American Enterprise, internationally recognized author Joel Kotkin notes: “The elements behind the Midwest's recovery from a century-long shrinkage of America's agricultural and industrial economies are many. They include things like the increasing costliness and dysfunction of our larger coastal cities, the liberating power of the digital revolution, and revived respect for what may be called Plains values in our current era of moral confusion.

Kotkin highlights the “evolution of local economies away from their previous dependency on agriculture and basic manufacturing into new areas like information, business services, and finance. Over the past five years, some of the very fastest growing "new economy" towns in the U.S. have been places like Fargo and Bismarck, North Dakota; Rapid City and Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Des Moines and Iowa City, Iowa.”

Whole families, bright students, reliable workers, and good neighbors – the qualities of places like those in the Corridor and throughout North Dakota that people are now looking for in a place to live, work and play.

Learn more now about lifestyle in the Corridor by visiting the following:

Fargo-Cass County EDC
Grand Forks Region EDC

Fargo-Moorhead Chamber of Commerce

Downtown Grand Cities (Grand Forks & East Grand Forks)
Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce

North Dakota Department of Commerce

Greater North Dakota Assocation