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Originally Posted by Bailey
London and Paris once said the same thing about 'colonial' New York City and then watched NYC pass them in almost every measurable category a dominant Alpha City.
Will it happen someday...who knows?? But Houston is not land locked like the others and it is WAY further along than NYC was when it was only 183 years old!
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Good grief, this was the argument of every single Midwestern city a hundred years ago, and they had even faster rates of growth in their heyday. They all fell hard after the boom ended, and the economic activity that was due to population growth itself faltered.
New York City was the economic capital in an era of high birth rates, mass immigration, and the transformation of America from rural to urban. Those factors don't really exist in America anymore, or at least not nearly to the same degree. Its growth will never be repeated save for a catastrophe elsewhere on the continent that triggers a mass migration.