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Go West, young engineer. Based on 2022 data assembled for ASCE's latest Best Places for Civil Engineers, that might be sage advice, regardless of what stage you are at in your career. After four years of crunching numbers from 2019 to 2022, ASCE can identify a clear top five Best Places, with Los Angeles sitting at the top of the list for the second consecutive year. The metropolitan statistical areas of Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Chicago round out this year's top five, meaning no Eastern MSA made the cut. In addition to leading the last two lists, Los Angeles was No. 2 in the first two rankings, meaning an average placement of 1.5, which no other MSA can match. Houston is next, with an average second-place ranking, followed by Denver (a third-place average), Chicago (fifth), and Dallas, whose average placement is fractionally behind Chicago's. Of these five MSAs, only Chicago and Dallas have ever missed a top five showing; Chicago was sixth in 2020, and Dallas was 10th in 2019. |