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Plenty of people are just fine living in Fort Wayne Indiana, and Bristol TN and Missoula Montana. Not everyone wants to live in a populated place. Again not everyone is a rootless tumbleweed chasing jobs, for some folks staying in the town where your roots are and raising your kids in the home you grew up in means something even if you have to make sacrifices.
Houston is very urban, and trafficky, and filthy, and filled with undesirables, you couldn't get me there for $25million. Same with NYC, LA etc,
Houston is very urban, and trafficky, and filthy, and filled with undesirables, you couldn't get me there for $25million. Same with NYC, LA etc,
You must have a very different definition of urban than I do. When I was in Houston, I found to be very unwalkable, and was surprised at how close to downtown detached single-family houses were. Seemed like one giant suburb to me. I've seen small towns in Pennsylvania which are more urban.
You must have a very different definition of urban than I do. When I was in Houston, I found to be very unwalkable, and was surprised at how close to downtown detached single-family houses were. Seemed like one giant suburb to me. I've seen small towns in Pennsylvania which are more urban.
Different people have different definitions of urban. To most young, urban professionals which is most City-Data posters, urban denotes a compact, walkable environment. To others, especially to those from smaller towns, it simply means a highly populated area in which Houston does qualify.
Different people have different definitions of urban. To most young, urban professionals which is most City-Data posters, urban denotes a compact, walkable environment. To others, especially to those from smaller towns, it simply means a highly populated area in which Houston does qualify.
It's just way too crowded. Too many cars, too many homes and apartments on top of each other...too much
I'm 27 by the way. although I am technically blue-collar I would consider myself a professional I'm just not urban I was born in San Luis Obispo County in California, move to San Angelo Texas when I was 15, and now live in a suburb of Virginia Beach called Mathews....The only big city I really enjoyed is San Antonio but besides that I would love to live in a town of 300 people in the Texas Hill country or in Northern Arizona.
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FWIW, here's a list of MSAs. You can see that as you go down the list in terms of size, it becomes more likely the whole metro will have a shrinking population than a growing one. Even at the bottom of the list though, most are growing, although virtually all the MSAs shrinking have less than 400,000 residents.
Looking at the population growth stats the question should be does the Northeast and rust belt have a future?
Why would they not? Everyone can't move to the desert...that's not sustainable. Have you heard of the Great Lakes? They will become MUCH more important as this country grows.
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