Unemployment rate giving you the blues? Try these top five cities for jobs.

Here are five large metro areas with the lowest unemployment rates and where unemployment is down at least half a percentage point over last year:

3. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy: 7.1% unemployment

Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
When Fenway Park built seats on top of the famous Green Monster – the left field wall at Fenway Park – in 2003, Red Sox fans clamored for a chance to perch atop the smallest ballpark in the country.

The greater Boston job market benefits from being a kind of capital city for the New England region (as well as for the state of Massachusetts). If you consider yourself a part of Red Sox Nation, this is where you go for the Fenway experience and more, and local restaurants and retailers reap the gains.

“The Hub" is America's quintessential bastion of higher education, drawing a steady stream of students, research grants, and spinoff corporations in fields such as biotech and robotics. The city has its problems – including high housing prices – but it's doing better than many others.

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