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Old 03-22-2011, 06:21 PM
 
Location: El Paso
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El Paso so far has one of the best performances that only three other places can match so far, Washington DC, Oklahoma City, & Indianapolis. Almost every places so far has either been with where the estimates and projections left it off for last year or been much less.

El Paso however has been way more than its projections and estimates implied. It's 35,000 larger than even the estimates!

El Paso MSA 2009 (Estimates): 751,296
El Paso MSA 2010 (Estimates): 765,546
El Paso MSA 2010 (Official Count): 800,647

Difference Between Estimates & Official: + 35,101

Congratulations El Paso on a job well done!
Why would this be considered a "best" performance?? Because we have more and more people coming over the border? Or because we are obtaining people from other states that contribute to our over population, thus putting more strain on resources, and contributing to more polution? Not to mention all these ugly ticky tack houses built that all look exactly alike?

Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, and Austin all have better economies, this is where the opportunity is.
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Old 03-29-2011, 05:27 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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El Paso is growing only because of it's proximity to the border and the cartel wars going on over there. If you exclude the border relocations going on in Ft. Bliss, you find that the net number of ordinary working native El Pasoans has actually declined. This is particularly true of middle class hispanics and anglos... the latter has been decreasing for 20 years now and are now almost entirely retirees at this point.
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Old 03-30-2011, 12:30 AM
 
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El Paso is growing only because of it's proximity to the border and the cartel wars going on over there. If you exclude the border relocations going on in Ft. Bliss, you find that the net number of ordinary working native El Pasoans has actually declined. This is particularly true of middle class hispanics and anglos... the latter has been decreasing for 20 years now and are now almost entirely retirees at this point.
True. 143,700 of the 800,000 are on Medicaid, 163,000 are on food stamps and that population is what's growing. It's difficult how anyone doesn't see the problem with that.

State cuts target Medicaid<br>Local docs say drop will hurt more in El Paso (http://elpasoinc.com/readArticle.aspx?issueid=326&xrec=6183 - broken link)

More using food stamps in El Paso, statewide - El Paso Times
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Old 03-30-2011, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Midessa, Texas Home Yangzhou, Jiangsu temporarily
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Congrats to El Paso, this is good news. I agree that we need a major city like El Paso outside of the Triangle to remind politicians in Austin that Texas does, in fact, extend west of I-35.

Two other things I would like to see:

More growth in Corpus Christi
A central hub develop in the RGV
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Old 03-30-2011, 10:47 AM
 
Location: 3rd rock from the sun
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True. 143,700 of the 800,000 are on Medicaid, 163,000 are on food stamps and that population is what's growing. It's difficult how anyone doesn't see the problem with that.
Much of El Paso's growth is in new subdivisions - and it's not welfare cases buying these homes. Ten year population growth of 120,000 (680,000 to 800,000) is in line with housing starts - over 4,000 in peak years and about 3,000/year since 2008.
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Old 04-02-2011, 08:49 AM
 
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Much of El Paso's growth is in new subdivisions - and it's not welfare cases buying these homes. Ten year population growth of 120,000 (680,000 to 800,000) is in line with housing starts - over 4,000 in peak years and about 3,000/year since 2008.
It's hard to say where the money is coming from because there really aren't many jobs being created here. Call centers and fast food doesn't pay well but they closed down the manufacturing and garment places like Levis and Farrahs many years ago.

But yes, entire subdivisions are going up pretty much overnight and houses aren't cheap.
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Old 04-02-2011, 03:45 PM
 
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19th-largest city in the US...not bad. I bet El Paso will be at well over 700,000 in 2020.
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Old 04-04-2011, 02:28 AM
 
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I would still take the growth of the last 10 years over the real stagnation El Paso experienced in the 1990s.
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Old 04-10-2011, 09:34 AM
 
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El Paso I live in the NE. Love my city!
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Old 04-11-2011, 10:00 AM
 
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why do people have that idea that call centers don't pay well? I am just wondering since, I know people that do and they make pretty good money, compared to jobs when I was living in California for example.


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It's hard to say where the money is coming from because there really aren't many jobs being created here. Call centers and fast food doesn't pay well but they closed down the manufacturing and garment places like Levis and Farrahs many years ago.

But yes, entire subdivisions are going up pretty much overnight and houses aren't cheap.
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