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Originally Posted by Altoic
Both states are impressively growing but I believe they're talking about the land mass of both states. Florida is much smaller than Texas and landlocked on multiple sides yet still having the same growth rate. When you look at regions like Miami-Dade, they cannot expand or sprawl like Texas cities do. Even Orlando is reigned in from conserved land.
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I mean that was the point of me retorting back to him in the first place that he’s wrong even for the land area comparison.
Texas added 473k people last year, that’s 1.6% growth.
Florida added 365k people last year, that’s also 1.6% growth.
Now here’s the difference I was pointing out to him and where he was wrong. The raw growth in Texas is concentrated heavily in the Texas Triangle megaregion, which is physically smaller than Georgia and slightly smaller than Florida by land area. In the Texas Triangle, DFW added 152k people, Houston added 139k people, Austin added 50k people, and San Antonio added 48k people. Between just those 4 metro areas that’s 390k people, that’s already more than what the entire state of Florida added by 26k and in a slightly smaller land area than the state of Florida. Then when you add the other areas in the Texas Triangle, smaller metros like College Station, Waco, and Killeen then the Triangle added 405k people last year. Again in a slightly smaller area than Florida and a bit smaller than Georgia.
Florida is 53,000 square miles of land area, Texas Triangle is 46,000 square miles of land area. Georgia is 57,000 square miles.
Even if you don’t want to include the Texas Triangle and exclude Houston then just use the I-35 Corridor from DFW to San Antonio. Thats 280 miles from downtown to downtown with Austin, Waco, and Killeen in between.
This 280 mile stretch added 265k people and is significantly smaller in area than Florida and certainly Georgia, less than a third of Georgia’s size.
If the guy just wanted to say he found Florida’s growth impressive then he should’ve just said that. Idk why he name dropped Texas and proceeded to make it a comparison and then use wrong land area arguments.