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Originally Posted by ATXboom
What about people who live in San Marcos (Austin MSA) and work in New Braunfels (SA MSA) and vice versa? Would they count? ...I guess I don't see distance as the key barrier to CSA but rather proportion of population that must cross-commute from either metro. We are talking about over 300K people at 15%
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15% of all the workers in one MSA working in a completely different MSA.
For example, Dallas and Tarrant Counties lie immediately adjacent to each other. Travis and Bexar Counties have 2 counties in between them directly, Hays and Comal Counties with 2 other counties Caldwell and Guadalupe just to the east of the first two.
Austin's MSA includes 5 counties - Bastrop,
Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties.
San Antonio's MSA includes 8 counties - Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar,
Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina, and Wilson Counties.
Because there are two counties lying between Travis and Bexar Counties, instead of crossing a single county line as in DFW, there would be three county lines to cross. Technically zero feet across a single county line vs 65 highway miles across three county lines along I-35.
To be frank, if there was just one county between Travis and Bexar County, I could see a single CSA being formed between the two MSAs. But with two counties in between, and with at least an hour driving time, getting to that 15% commute will be difficult.