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Originally Posted by bresilhac
But not more than Texas. By a long shot. New York is hemorrhaging people. Texas is growing by leaps and bounds. Austin and San Antonio are two of the fastest growing cities in the country and Dallas and Houston aren't much far behind. New York has snowy, cold winters though and I miss that about the North. I used to live in Virginia prior to moving to San Antonio and the summer's are murder down here.
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Anyplace with alot of desolate land is growing. It's nothing special to be proud of. It's not admirable. It's not due to cultural or economic superiority. It's due to decades of bad economics and a lack of culture -- that's what has kept the real estate prices so low in those places. Modern technology is doing a great job of pumping water and moving vast amounts of resources to what was previously uninhabitable environments for large amounts of people. There will always be large amounts of people looking for the cheapest, most boring way to live. Isn't that how Wal-Mart makes their money?
A trailer park out in the middle of Nevada has a 100% growth rate. So? Would you want to live there? (Oh, damn, nevermind. Bad example.)