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Originally Posted by Trae
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.
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
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Interesting, especially about the old downtowns. I thought maybe since Dallas was an older city, it had more old downtowns. Houston has been written off many times, and I would suspect it is doing well given its economic profile because it is in Texas. A joke in the 80s was that it was the next Detroit. Other oil towns have not done well - New Orleans is not really growing and Tulsa is an oil town that is overshadowed by OKC and growing much more slowly. I guess it also benefited because the industry consolidated there, and it also drew in international companies. Even the small metro next to it, Beaumont, is not growing.