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That's right, what city has the most potential. What city 20 - 30 years from now will be much better. Consider all the common things that normally are compared.
COL, QOL, politics, weather, scenery, food, natural disasters, culture etc.
Has great weather, beaches, mountains everything. It still is getting better with measure M and the public transportation expanding greatly. Revitalization of the LA river and is a signal of the improving QOL in terms of the look and feel of LA. LA has everything, almost every major industry is located here. (Even Elon Musk lives here) Hopefully driverless cars will make traffic flow faster and easier. Also electric cars could contribute to cleaner air and one of our major issues. LA has three major problems that you hear people complain about.
1. The cost of housing
- This will probably stay high, yeah its the one problem LA might not really solve. It's upsides still outweight the downsides though. You can still find cheaper accommodations in South LA.
2. Traffic
- Driverless cars and better public transportation are on the way
3. Air Quality
- Electric vehicles will contribute to a much cleaner air.
Why live anywhere else?
Austin - Booming economy, creative energy, fun liberal utopia. It's the fastest growing major city in the US. Everyone is moving to Texas, and Austin has the fastest growth rate. So yeah, its going to get better.
Raleigh - Has much of the same benefits as Austin. The research triangle is the smartest region in the south. It usually is compared to a place like Austin. Austin is growing faster, but this area is doing quite well. It's benefit is that it is in probably the most beautiful southern state. It has nicer beaches and the mountains in the same state. High tech and improving.
The Philly guys on this forum drive me nuts. But, Philly is going to undergo an extended period of explosive growth and become huge and massive. It may overtake and DC and Chicago in many urban categories in a few years.
Nimbyism will also, eventually rear its ugly head in Philly.
Austin - Booming economy, creative energy, fun liberal utopia. It's the fastest growing major city in the US. Everyone is moving to Texas, and Austin has the fastest growth rate. So yeah, its going to get better.
For Austin's sake, they'd better hope driverless cars completely replace driver-operated ones soon. Traffic in Austin is ungodly terrible because the city's transportation infrastructure blows. I-35 through Austin is a total pile.
That's right, what city has the most potential. What city 20 - 30 years from now will be much better. Consider all the common things that normally are compared.
COL, QOL, politics, weather, scenery, food, natural disasters, culture etc.
For Austin's sake, they'd better hope driverless cars completely replace driver-operated ones soon. Traffic in Austin is ungodly terrible because the city's transportation infrastructure blows. I-35 through Austin is a total pile.
I-35 thru Austin is hardly a pile - most of the time. Usually I-35 thru Austin at rush hour is slow and go rather than go and stop, unless there is a wreck on the interstate that has brought the traffic to a complete stop.That happens occasionally, but normally it's a long slow drive with at least 6 lanes each way in bumper to bumper traffic, including the frontage road lanes along with the lanes on the actual interstate. I'd venture to guess there's about a 10% chance the traffic will come to complete stop while driving I-35 from GT to SM. Other wise it's about 57 miles and about a 90 minute drive from Georgetown to San Marcos during the 5 o'clock rush hour traffic. To make the trip at dark or between the hours of 10am to about 3pm it will take about an hour to make that drive. 35 traffic is not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. I-35's reputation thru Austin is much worse than the reality that it really is.
Baltimore. Great location, good urban bones, major port, strong university presence. Severely undervalued. Philadelphia is a close second, but I think Phlly is a lot closer to fulfilling its potential than Baltimore is.
Baltimore. Great location, good urban bones, major port, strong university presence. Severely undervalued. Philadelphia is a close second, but I think Phlly is a lot closer to fulfilling its potential than Baltimore is.
I second this.
Also gotta mention Detroit.
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