From OA News: Auburn/Opelika Pretty Smart

Many Auburn-Opelika residents must be smarter than a fifth-grader, according to a national report.

Not only is Auburn-Opelika the smartest metropolitan area in the state of Alabama, according toNewGeography.com, but it’s also the fourth-smartest metropolitan area in America — only behind St. George, Utah; Bloomington, Ind. and Ocean City, N.J.

“For the most part, the top 10 on our list of the 51 largest metro areas is dominated by places with large concentrations of colleges, and those that long ago made the transition from industrial to information-based economies,” survey authors Joel Kotkin and Mark Schill stated on NewGeography.com. (Other college towns in the top 10 include Bloomington, Ind., Hattiesburg, Miss. and Lawrence, Kan.)

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From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on November 27, 2014. View the original page.

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