5 of the top 10 'Best Performing Cities' in America are in Texas

Start with the Milken Institute's Best Performing Cities, then look at their process/methodology, and then look at this post analyzing the data on CityLab. Comfortable yet? OK, let's get going. 

Here's the top 25 "large cities" via this process/metric base:

First thing that jumps out to me? Five of the top 10 are in Texas (Austin, Houston, Fort Worth, Dal…