These 21 large metro areas were singled out by Brookings for keeping their labor and housing markets stable and posting robust economic activity during the past few years.
In fact, all but five of the 21 leading cities have economic output levels that top records set just prior to the recession.
Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester made the list - of course, we didn’t have a boom before the bust, and it could be argued that we are also “boom-proof” as well as recession-proof - but it is interesting that some cities topped the financial records, even during the downturn.