Atlanta Projected to be 6th Largest Metro by 2042 and a Mega-City before 2050 (Sandy Springs: transplants, real estate)

[aries4118]

Atlanta Projected to be 6th Largest Metro by 2042 and a Mega-City before 2050.

Moving South and West? Metropolitan America in 2042 | Newgeography.com


"Atlanta would move up three positions to number 6, and could be the nation's 6th megacity before 2050. Miami would move from 8th to 7th. There would be two new entrants to the top ten: Phoenix and Riverside-San Bernardino, ranked 8th and 9th. These two, along with Miami could become megacities before 2060. The tenth position would be held by fast growing Washington, which would remain the only non megacity in the top ten."




Atlanta is currently the 9th largest metropolitan area.

List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[erick295]

Meh. We're basically already tied for fourth... a few areas might have an edge on paper but only Chicago, LA, and New York are truly larger.

[BeyondInfinity]

Originally Posted by aries4118

Atlanta Projected to be 6th Largest Metro by 2042 and a Mega-City before 2050.

Moving South and West? Metropolitan America in 2042 | Newgeography.com


"Atlanta would move up three positions to number 6, and could be the nation's 6th megacity before 2050. Miami would move from 8th to 7th. There would be two new entrants to the top ten: Phoenix and Riverside-San Bernardino, ranked 8th and 9th. These two, along with Miami could become megacities before 2060. The tenth position would be held by fast growing Washington, which would remain the only non megacity in the top ten."




Atlanta is currently the 9th largest metropolitan area.

List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And we will probably have the same infrastructure since the conservatives do not want to pay for anything but will complain in a heartbeat if their commute is ruined by rain, sleet, snow or anything else.

The region better start tackling the transportation problems now before it takes more money to update the infrastructure in the future!

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by BeyondInfinity

And we will probably have the same infrastructure since the conservatives do not want to pay for anything but will complain in a heartbeat if their commute is ruined by rain, sleet, snow or anything else.

The region better start tackling the transportation problems now before it takes more money to update the infrastructure in the future!

By that time they won't be in charge any longer. Demographics win, but there will be a lot of lost time to make up for.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by erick295

Meh. We're basically already tied for fourth... a few areas might have an edge on paper but only Chicago, LA, and New York are truly larger.

I kinda agree with this.

[the resident09]

I'd imagine the Baltimore/DC region will be combined into one within the next 30 years, it's already at 9.3 million and by that point will be pushing 11 million, so the numbers could mean anything when referring to "megacities."

[atltechdude]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

By that time they won't be in charge any longer. Demographics win, but there will be a lot of lost time to make up for.

Good point, if the current trends continue, Georgia will be a swing state by around 2020. Maybe we can have a more productive push for new infrastructure then.

[PacoMartin]

So Atlanta will grow faster and overtake Miami, D.C. and Philadelphia in three decades. That is not really a shocking prediction.

Metro Area growth rate %
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 67.8%
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 49.2%
Washington-Arlington-Alex, DC-VA-MD-WV 36.4%
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilm., PA-NJ-DE-MD 9.5%


Future Rank-Present Day population
1) NY-NJ-PA
2) Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 13,053
3) Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI 9,549
4) Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 6,669
5) Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 6,216
6) Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 5,447
7) Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 5,771
8) Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 4,332
9) Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 4,381
10) Washington-Arlington-Alex, DC-VA-MD-WV 5,810
11) Philadelphia-Camden-Wilm., PA-NJ-DE-MD 6,018
12) San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 4,442

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by BeyondInfinity

And we will probably have the same infrastructure since the conservatives do not want to pay for anything but will complain in a heartbeat if their commute is ruined by rain, sleet, snow or anything else.

The region better start tackling the transportation problems now before it takes more money to update the infrastructure in the future!

The problem is not necessarily the conservatives as much as it is the ultra-conservatives and extreme libertarians who think that all of the transplants will suddenly decide to leave and the area will return to the much less-urban and more rural area that it was 40-50 years ago before about 5 million newcomers came if they force the state to intentionally withhold funding from the multimodal transportation infrastructure of the fast-growing Atlanta region.

The only problem with that approach is that their profit-hungry real estate developer friends never seemed to have gotten the memo to stop overbuilding new development on a transportation network that the ultraconservatives and extreme libertarians are intentionally withholding funding from in an effort to make the outsiders that the developers are making money from hand-over-fist go away.

Originally Posted by waronxmas

By that time they won't be in charge any longer. Demographics win, but there will be a lot of lost time to make up for.

This is a good point.

But even though the Atlanta region appears to be falling further behind when it comes to transportation investment, I wouldn't worry about the Atlanta region getting too far behind as even with the state's outright refusal to invest in the region's multimodal infrastructure over the last couple of decades or so, the Atlanta region's robust population growth dynamics will enable tens-of-billions of dollars in financing to be readily available whenever the state gets ready to upgrade and expand the region's multimodal transportation infrastructure, which will help the Atlanta region be able to make up a lot of that lost ground in a very-short period of time.

[emcee squared]

Growth rates and population shifts can vary wildly year by year, so predicting 30 years out is not wise. I wouldn't want to live in Atlanta when we have 10,000,000 residents unless there are major changes to our infrastructure and how we do business.

Even worse, though, would be a mega Inland Empire. That place is already a depressing mess of suburban sh*t. I don't understand why millions more people would want to move there.