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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:12 AM
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Not really. It's all relative. If Texas is expensive, that means that California and the Northeast are really f'n expensive.

Are people going to stop moving to Texas for Mississippi?

Texas has land, lots of it. California does not. New York certainly does not.

But they'll move to Tennessee or something.
It's not rocket science..
Every boom city slows down.
It's just delusional or wishful thinking Texas will keep growing the same way

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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:18 AM
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Yep, also just basic geography. LA has a good port on the Pacific for direct trade with Asia that doesn't have to go through the canal, a time zone that is more convenient for Asian clients, great weather. Neither Houston not Dallas have the stupendous location, access or infrastructure that could make them into megacities.

Houston, in particular, is ignoring the waving red flag that is Harris County. If domestic migration has reversed in your city's main county with people fleeing to the exurbs and growth barely sustained by natural increase... well, 1950s Midwest has a story to tell.

https://kinder.rice.edu/2018/04/10/h...ris-county-not

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/20...-county-growth
Houston's MSA used to be Harris County and nothing else. There's now more megaburbs with good schools, McMansions and loveable suburban life. Most of Harris County sucks outside the 610 loop (with some good portions, such as the NASA area already close to built out). Of course people are moving to the fringes.

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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:30 AM
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Not really. It's all relative. If Texas is expensive, that means that California and the Northeast are really f'n expensive.

Are people going to stop moving to Texas for Mississippi?

Texas has land, lots of it. California does not. New York certainly does not.
California and even LA County has land. Much of it is remote, protected or very far from the city center. Much of it is desert; Vegas and the Mojave Desert are right around the corner from the Inland Empire.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:34 AM
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It's not high density. It's very low density

And yes, people will move to cheaper cities, as they always have.

What's the draw in Texas besides col?
Not much.
Houston can grow up in all directions, including very much in the city center.

And a generation ago Houston had no national vibe or draw, merely just existing for cheap housing good jobs. That has changed.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:48 AM
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^^^^

I just hope Texas and its cities continue the pro-business, pro-growth, pro-development, and pro-human living conditions stance. Maybe the state will use the lessons of other disasters in the making and not repeat those mistakes.

Some states are overdue for a catastrophic housing bubble, and rightfully so. Might wake them up and consider making prices humane.

I think Texas will eventually be the most populous state. Bound to happen. I just hope the poison IN THE FUTURE doesn't ruin a good state, if you know what I mean.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:53 AM
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Houston can grow up in all directions, including very much in the city center.

And a generation ago Houston had no national vibe or draw, merely just existing for cheap housing good jobs. That has changed.

It will slow down, like everywhere else .
No reason to believe otherwise.
Theres evidence for the other option though.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 2:56 AM
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^^^^

The engine can keep going, 24/7... 365 days. Its a matter of encouraging people to move, construction to continue, and an environment that encourages businesses to grow, invest, and not go under water. Might it slow down, sure, but the engine can still continue to go. Texas is like a Diesel Engine. Those things last, but you have to properly maintain it, and not do anything that would damage the engine, which can all be avoided with proper care and wise planning and foresight.
     
     
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We have nothing but prairie in all directions except Galveston Bay. The coastal areas may suffer a big hurricane and slow down but progess will continue. More flooding, houses get built on stilts.
     
     
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Anyone who thinks Dallas and houston will hit
20 million by 2050 is beyond delusional.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 3:23 AM
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Not impossible but so is a date between me and (insert name). I wouldn't want 20 million, more isn't always better. For various reasons (including coastal evacuations especially), I hope Houston caps off at 4 million in the city and 10 million in the area. Beloved old country towns are being lost via overshadowing or a good ol' bulldozer. Meanwhile, McMansions and strip mall stores are growing like bacteria.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 3:29 AM
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It gained 4 million in the past 30 years.
12 million in next 30 is very impossible.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 5:01 AM
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Come on guys, the thread was specifically considering LA if the growth conditions predicted in the 80s actually came to past. No offense to Houston, Dallas, or the other Texas cities, but if you want to talk about them, open up another thread about what if they became the largest cities in the US.




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LA, for a while now, has had slow growth, and has detached from the Sunbelt model of growth. The fringe isn't growing much anymore. The Sunbelt boomed due to weather, low cost, govt. subsidy (esp. military) and Mexican immigration. Really only the weather is relevant to LA now. It has the same advantages (and disadvantages) of the high-cost slow-growth metros.

I think LA will continue to grow, but slowly, and doubt it will be the largest U.S. metro in the next century, if ever. LA is already freaking huge. 18-19 million people by CSA. I cannot imagine 30 million people in LA.

Again, I was talking mainly about the projections made in an article in the other thread. And also, the Inland Empire is still going rapidly. There is a lot of space in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Not to mention, LA is still a low rise city that can always build up slowly and densify like any other US city right now.

And you never know. New York could stagnate, city and metro wise. And all it takes is LA annexing a few more towns.
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We have nothing but prairie in all directions except Galveston Bay. The coastal areas may suffer a big hurricane and slow down but progess will continue. More flooding, houses get built on stilts.
It's not that you can't build, it's that there's no incentive to build when you can't get anywhere. Houston could never be a city of 20 million, because it would be unlivable at that size, unless it radically transformed (in which case it would be extremely expensive and NIMBY).

The issue in slow growth metros isn't that there's no buildable fringe, it's that it makes no sense to build endlessly when there are no good jobs, schools and services within easy distance. There is nothing, theoretically, stopping LA from sprawling to Bakersfield or NY sprawling to Binghamton, but why would professionals want a three hour commute and live in the sticks and send their kids to crap schools?
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 5:06 AM
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Again, the southern cities boomed because of low col in last 30 years..
They're getting more expensive, not cheaper.

So theres no way the same growth rates will maintain.
Yes, they are getting more expensive. However, so are coastal cities, so they are still a bargain.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 5:07 AM
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Crawford pointed out why.
Once it gets more expensive, it's going to lose a ton of growth.

The same people getting priced out of the north east and California will get priced out of Texas, Florida and Georgia.
It's just a matter of time.
Texas will never...ever be as expensive as California. For a lot of reasons.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 5:09 AM
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And you never know. New York could stagnate, city and metro wise. And all it takes is LA annexing a few more towns.
NY has been relatively stagnant, by metro, for 50 years.

And I have no idea what you mean by "LA annexing a few more towns". LA cannot annex towns, there are no such nearby towns with millions of people, and that has nothing to do with metro population.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 7:18 AM
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It gained 4 million in the past 30 years.
12 million in next 30 is very impossible.
Yeah, I don't think so. I can see both passing 10 million and probably passing Chicagoland in population, but not LA.
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And you never know. New York could stagnate, city and metro wise. And all it takes is LA annexing a few more towns.
Since 2010
NY CSA has grown by about 1.9%
LA CSA: 5% <---fringe growth in Riverside MSA


Outside of Chicago, NY CSA is the slowest growing region in the top 10 metropolitan areas.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 19, 2019, 12:13 PM
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Anyone who thinks Dallas and houston will hit
20 million by 2050 is beyond delusional.
Did anybody say that?
     
     
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[QUOTE=jd3189;8721748 I read an article last night discussing how New York was able to maintain its dominance of the most populous city since the colonial era.[/QUOTE]

I don't know what article you read, but New York didn't become the most populous city until the opening of the Erie canal in the early 1800s. Philadelphia was the colonial-era largest city, and the second largest English-speaking city in the world (behind London, obviously.)
     
     
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