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Here's a link for everybody. This is going to burst a lot of peoples' bubbles in here. LA, SF, Chicago, NYC and Houston, none of these cities are in the list. Boston is in the list though.
The Top 25 Cities For Your Career
Top 25 cities for your career - Manage Your Life on Shine (http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/top-25-cities-for-your-career-458275/ - broken link)
No that's not true. Houston doesn't want to better than any other city. People in Houston are happy with Houston. A lot of people in Houston think they already live in the best place.
Next year’s national census is expected to show that flourishing Houston has replaced struggling Chicago as America’s third city. Of the ten largest cities in America, three are in Texas.
He is certainly right about the last point: not too many other cities could have absorbed 100,000 refugees, bigheartedly and fairly painlessly, as Houston did after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. With vibrant Asian communities alongside its balanced Hispanic, white and black mix, with no discernible racial tensions, and with more foreign consulates than any American city except New York and Los Angeles, Houston is arguably America’s most enthusiastically cosmopolitan city, a place where the future has already arrived.
This is curious. The Economist is very well-respected, but I don't believe them here. I haven't seen any data suggesting Houston is going to overtake Chicago in population by next year. The annual census estimates put Chicago about 600k higher in population than Houston. I'll be the first to admit that the annual estimates are often erroneous, but I doubt they're off by 600k. Or do you believe that Houston will gain 600k in one year? Obviously nobody knows for certain until the final figures come out, so we'll just have to wait.
I see I'm not the only one who found the population prediction by the Economist to be flawed.
Here is a comment in response to the article.
Manage my account | The Economist (http://www.economist.com/members/persona.cfm?econuid=1290096 - broken link)
No doubt, given the current population growth trends, and given the larger (geographic) size of Houston, it wouldn't surprise me if eventually Houston passed Chicago in total population. Don't think it'll happen by next year though.
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This is curious. The Economist is very well-respected, but I don't believe them here. I haven't seen any data suggesting Houston is going to overtake Chicago in population by next year. The annual census estimates put Chicago about 600k higher in population than Houston. I'll be the first to admit that the annual estimates are often erroneous, but I doubt they're off by 600k. Or do you believe that Houston will gain 600k in one year? Obviously nobody knows for certain until the final figures come out, so we'll just have to wait.
I might be one of the few houstonians on this board that prefers for Chicago to remain the bigger city. It's already bad enough everyone b**** about us being the 4th biggest, but us overtaking Chicago is just going to be hell; specifically on this board.
I don't believe Houston will gain 600k in a year either.
No Houston isn't going to pass Chicago in the next 20 years or so but nevertheless that was a good article. I enjoyed reading it.
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