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I have to say Columbus, OH. As ignored as it is, it's actually a very progressive city that has a lot of jobs and is moving in the right direction. I see a lot of future potential in Columbus. It has roughly a little over 700,000 but I definitely see it reaching that 1,000,000 mark(just the city not including the suburbs).
Austin. It's growth has been phenomenal and there is no slowing down.
Im not denying Austin is growing fast.
Just i think the Census is overestimating Austin's population for 2011.
The Census did this for Atlanta for the past 10 years.
2009 estimate Atlanta's Fulton County had 1M people.
2010 census=900k which is a 10% over estimation.
So i take the Census Estimates with a small grain of salt.
Whichever one has the most open land within their borders and is growing fast. Indy is up there, but it's slow and steady from 700K to 820K over 30 years. It needs a pop if it's going to get up over a million in the next 30 years. Also needs open land to build.
Whichever one has the most open land within their borders and is growing fast. Indy is up there, but it's slow and steady from 700K to 820K over 30 years. It needs a pop if it's going to get up over a million in the next 30 years. Also needs open land to build.
Jacksonville, while not the fastest growing of the list, has by far the most available land on which to grow. If some of the other cities can annex land adjacent that is already developed and populated, that could be the wild card.
I don't care who reaches the 1,000,000 mark first. As long as Austin keeps its hault on annexation steady, I'm happy.
I think Austin needs to slow down its growth rate by 25%.
If you grow to fast as a city/metro then you start running into problems such as crowded Freeways/High taxes/high cost of real estate etc.
Indianapolis grew 15% in the past 10 years and 40% in the past 20 years. That is a better growth rate. Than doubling your population in 10 years and having clogged freeways/smog etc.
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