That’s what Business Week is telling its readers and online visitors.

The magazine says Anchorage is the No. 1 place in America to find a job. Not that we’re encouraging carpetbaggers, but the Valley isn’t too shabby regarding jobs.

Just look at a few hints. Primrose retirement community just opened. That will not only create permanent jobs, but it also made jobs while it was being built.

Trunk Road will get a new route and that will require lots of jobs over a few years.

Wasilla just announced it will get the new state VFW headquarters. Not so many long-term jobs, but somebody is going to have to build it.

Palmer is laying new pipes in one of its many projects to upgrade sewer and water lines as well as pave streets that are now gravel.

The granddaddy of them all, of course, is the new prison at Point MacKenzie. Several hundred people will be employed during its two-year construction, but after that, up to 350 will be employed full-time at good wages.

If the port down that way ever gets busy, that will add more jobs.

Think Knik-Goose Bay Road won’t get a facelift with that new community growing like a weed these days?

All of these, except the prison, are typically seasonal or one-time construction projects, but they all contribute to overall fiscal health of the community. Despite being snubbed on road projects last go-round in state funding, the fastest-growing area of Alaska should do better next time because the infrastructure just isn’t keeping pace with the growth that we’ve already seen and will see in the future.

One of the reasons Business Week called for people to consider Urban Alaska is because:

“The probability of getting a job, depending on your qualifications, is probably relatively high here,” Scott Goldsmith, professor of economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage, told the magazine. “We haven’t been negatively impacted as much as the rest of the country.”

Goldsmith said it’s possible that out-of-work Californians who have come to Alaska looking for opportunities might be responsible for pushing up the unemployment rate a bit — 8 percent, according to the magazine.

“In some sense, it’s the end of the road,” Goldsmith told Business Week. “You tend to get two kinds of people (moving to Alaska): people running away from something or people looking for something. That ‘something’ historically has been opportunity — and there’s still some of it here.”