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Old 02-22-2011, 09:42 AM
 
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Yeah, congrats to El Paso
It's good to have a fast-growing metro outside the Texas Triangle.Texas gov should support El Paso because the potential is huge for the economic growth.
If they were coming for jobs that might be true. But with our very high unemployment rate, it's not for jobs they are pouring into El Paso.

And now all we hear are tax increases here, tax increases there. If the newcomers were paying taxes, there would be no need for tax increases.

Also not too long ago it was Juarez that was growing in size extremely fast like we are now. And little good that did....
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Old 02-22-2011, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Glory Road - El Paso, Texas (R.O)
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In a lot of situations, El Paso has fared very well when it comes to a budget shortfall. I believe they were just a couple of million short last budget. Not good but nothing compared to the tens and hundreds of millions other cities were in the hole. Maybe the influx had something to do with our relatively good shape.
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Old 02-22-2011, 07:40 PM
 
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Yes, it's definitely been good for the builders. Houses here are still being built like there's no tomorrow - and we didn't suffer any housing set back like other places. They come with big cash and buy up $400,000 houses which is great for home sellers.

But I haven't heard of all the newly created jobs except of course the schools and hospitals and fast food places that is providing the wages for all this growth. I guess the money is coming from somewhere though because there seems to be plenty of new money moving in.
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Old 02-23-2011, 02:34 AM
 
Location: Tower of Heaven
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If they were coming for jobs that might be true. But with our very high unemployment rate, it's not for jobs they are pouring into El Paso.

And now all we hear are tax increases here, tax increases there. If the newcomers were paying taxes, there would be no need for tax increases.

Also not too long ago it was Juarez that was growing in size extremely fast like we are now. And little good that did....
You're pessimistic lol
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Old 02-23-2011, 03:14 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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El Paso has had a decent decade, the city should make its target of rivaling Phoenix one day for the most influential city in the Desert Southwest. In my opinion, it has more going for it than Phoenix, military, quick border access for trade, more central location for airport, and its in Texas.

I'm really hoping for El Paso, it would be sweet having a big league city outside of the Texas Triangle.
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Old 02-23-2011, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Tower of Heaven
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El Paso has had a decent decade, the city should make its target of rivaling Phoenix one day for the most influential city in the Desert Southwest. In my opinion, it has more going for it than Phoenix, military, quick border access for trade, more central location for airport, and its in Texas.

I'm really hoping for El Paso, it would be sweet having a big league city outside of the Texas Triangle.
Be careful, Albuquerque is a good rival ^^
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Old 02-23-2011, 07:48 AM
 
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You're pessimistic lol
Yes because with massive populations comes more crime and more traffic. Especially crime if there aren't decent jobs to accomodate them.

El Paso has always been a nice moderate size town where you could get from one side to the other or anywhere you wanted to get in less than 30 minutes but now you're lucky to make it 5 miles on I-10 before traffic comes to a crawl.

The way they're crowding in the houses doesn't seem good to me, squeezing people in like sardines and all. Any vacant lot is getting 4 houses built on it overnight. We're getting that same look Juarez had with all the Infonavit style houses, put lots of people in tiny spaces and see what happens.

Maybe because I was on the East Side and it looks like it got scorched by something, all those dead palm trees. Maybe in few years if people plant some trees meant for El Paso, things will look alive again. I think there could be good business for someone who wants to make it about removing dead palm trees.
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Old 03-22-2011, 12:02 PM
 
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It looks like El Paso may now be one of the 20 largest cities in the US. It's 19th, unless Washington had a growth spurt that put its 2010 population higher than El Paso's 649,121 and the population figure for Detroit published on the Detroit papers' websites is a typo or a mistake (713,000). (I didn't expect that big a drop from 2000, not even for Detroit).

Last time I checked, New York State figures from the 2010 census hadn't been released, but I think it's safe to say New York is still the country's biggest city.

The rest of the Top Ten (using census figures gathered from the Census Bureau website over the past few weeks:

(2nd) Los Angeles (3,792,621)
(3rd) Chicago (2,695,598)
(4th) Houston (2,009,451)
(5th) Philadelphia (1,526,006)

(6th) Phoenix (1,445,632)
(7th) San Antonio (1,327,407)
(8th) San Diego (1,307,402)
(9th) Dallas (1,197,816)
(10th) San Jose (945,942)

And rounding out the Top 20 (using the probably preliminary figure for Detroit):

(11th) Indianapolis (829,718)
(12th) Jacksonville (821,784)
(13th) San Francisco (805,235)
(14th) Austin (790,390)
(15th) Columbus (787,033) (this is in Ohio, as you might have guessed)

(16th) Fort Worth (741,206)
(17th) Charlotte (731,424)
(18th?) Detroit (713,000?)
(19th) El Paso (649,121)
(20th) Memphis (646,889)

Off the top of my head, Baltimore (620,961), Boston (617,594, according to the Boston Globe website; the Census Bureau site hasn't put the Massachusetts figures on yet last time I checked), and Milwaukee (594,833) were in the Top 20 ten years ago, but they've all been pushed out.
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Old 03-22-2011, 04:52 PM
 
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Make that 713,777 for Detroit (source, USA Today ).
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Old 03-22-2011, 04:55 PM
 
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Maybe because I was on the East Side and it looks like it got scorched by something, all those dead palm trees. Maybe in few years if people plant some trees meant for El Paso, things will look alive again. I think there could be good business for someone who wants to make it about removing dead palm trees.

El Paso doesn't usually see temperatures in the single digits or teens, does it?
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