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Originally Posted by electricron
Really? Are there any evidence stating so?
From https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/na...lancetennessee
Nashville
High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 88.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 39.7%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fa...5218#HSG495218
Austin
High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 89.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 50.4%
Are you sure crowing about less than 1% high school and less than 11% Bachelor degree superiority shows higher enlightenment.
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I think an 11% difference is YUUUUGE.
In all seriousness, thank you for providing evidence in my support of what I said. This source also shows a decent gap between the two on bachelors or higher:
https://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-e...area-2007-2017
I'd also call attention to graduate and professional degree attainment, which is likely higher here as well. Nashville regionally has approximately 150k graduate and professional degree holders (
https://www.nashville.gov/Work/Demographics.aspx), but even if Austin city limits alone meets the national average for graduate and professional degree attainment per metro area (13.1% according to the census) then it alone has 130K. I guarantee that it has a higher rate and that the suburbs here add further to that number.
Another set of numbers I'd like to draw attention to:
Austin: $67,462 median household income
Nashville: $55,873 median household income
Austin: $2.1449 per $100 of assessed value annual property tax rate without system
Nashville: $4.221 per $100 of assessed value annual property tax rate without system
Austin:$426,750 median home value
Nashville: $298,039 median home value
Austin: in-migrants from rail-friendly political jurisdictions
Nashville: in-migrants from the sticks
It is not unreasonable to assume that many rational Nashville voters realized they (a) didn't have the income to (b) support an EVEN higher tax rate to (c) support a rail system in a city that although is densifying, is not as dense as they'd like it to be, on (d) comparatively low median home values whereas Austin voters realized they (a) had the income to (b) support a moderate tax rate to (d) support a rail system in a city that is already decently dense (just wait until the new census numbers come out, y'all, it is going to shock the changes made to Dallas, Houston, Austin, and even San Antonio as well on density) and becoming more so.