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Not really Austin and Houston are in the same boat as San Antonio, lots of small suburbs. how are they any more important? Round Rock is bigger but if you compare it to the Randolph Metrocom which all cities are one connected urban area, it's bigger.
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Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio
Htown, SA metro is not just S.A. there is about 600,000 people surrounding it's city limts that is urbanized area, the rest of the nearly 2.2 million are outlying exburb cities. As far as the economic might of S.A. suburbs, they do have some major companies and plants but not on the same level as Baytown. But why are you going off topic?
Round Rock has dell. What else?
What does Sugarland have?
It's mostly San Antonio and its ETJ though. SA's suburbs are small and insignificant. Houston and Austin have more sizeable suburbs. DFW is overloaded with suburbs. There is nothing wrong with the way SA is setup. Much better than Dallas' situation.
When you add up San Antonio's urbanized suburbs that are contigious urban area not including satelite cities it equals to higher population than Austin's. Austin has a bigger suburb with Round Rock but when comparing all of San Antonio's, San Antonio beats out Austin.
I was surprised at the Dallas, Chicago and Houston numbers. I see the 2009 estimate for NY State was over the final 2010 count by almost 150,000. I'm wondering if NYC's population is going to come in a bit below the 2009 estimates. It had really low turnouts as well - which apparently have had a bit effect on other cities counts.
It's mostly San Antonio and its ETJ though. SA's suburbs are small and insignificant. Houston and Austin have more sizeable suburbs. DFW is overloaded with suburbs. There is nothing wrong with the way SA is setup. Much better than Dallas' situation.
Yeah, I dunno why he thinks that it is a bad thing that SA is so dominant in the metro. It would be nice if the metro was more in line withDallas and Houston, but saying that SA is only the metro is not a slight.
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Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio
When you add up San Antonio's urbanized suburbs that are contigious urban area not including satelite cities it equals to higher population than Austin's. Austin has a bigger suburb with Round Rock but when comparing all of San Antonio's, San Antonio beats out Austin.
it is not the size dude, it is how it is used. forget about SA having more people in the burbs, the economic activity in SA compared to the burbs is not a contest. SA runs the show almost completely. It is the economic engine of the metro while lots of dollars come out from Austins burbs, DFW's Burbs and Houston's burbs. Austin has tech sectors in its burbs, so does DFW. DFW has telecomunications, shipping and a whole variety of stuff in the burbs. Houston has manufacturing, tourism, energy and other sectors in its burbs.
the great majority of SA's economic activity is in SA
Your manufacturing jobs, most of the tourism jobs, most of the military thingies, it is all SA
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I was surprised at the Dallas, Chicago and Houston numbers. I see the 2009 estimate for NY State was over the final 2010 count by almost 150,000. I'm wondering if NYC's population is going to come in a bit below the 2009 estimates. It had really low turnouts as well - which apparently have had a bit effect on other cities counts.
yeah, looks like we are seeing shortfalls all around in the major cities.
I actually thought Houston metro did well. It exceeded the 2009 numbers by 130K
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