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Originally Posted by JManc
My wife's family is from Forney, TX and the amount of growth just since I've known her is off the charts. Her cousin recently sold their property for millions to the local school district and everything around it has been built up. 20 years ago, it was all ranch land in every direction. Crime has gone up exponentially as well. Rapid growth is not necessarily a good thing. Glad Houston has slowed down somewhat.
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Houston hasn't really slowed down. Actually last year was the fastest it grew since 2016. Houston is typically in the 85k-120k range. DFW is just growing a bit faster now thanks to years of planning among that group of cities which is coming together currently, in what's probably DFW's golden age. I think with being the last affordable 5M+ metro that Houston will continue to see an increases moving forward.
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Quality of growth >>>>>>>>> quantity of growth.
Seeing the great Chicagoland cornfield-gobbling sprawl machine finally get kicked squarely in the nuts was by far my favorite aspect of the great recession.
We don't need one more single fucking gram of that endless stroad & cul de sac bullshit around here.
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Houston isn't getting that quality of growth because there's so many unincorporated areas, which account for the bulk majority of the Houston metro population. Many areas just lack the basic things like sidewalks. If Houston had DFW like planning metro wide it'd be growing much faster right now. I envy the old downtowns places like DFW has throughout their suburbs. Houston either paved over them, they were turned into reservoirs, or the city annexed so much land around these towns that they decided to disincorporate because there was no tax base. Kind of amazing Houston is growing like it is considering these major flaws imo