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Old 08-05-2014, 07:07 PM
 
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Economist: Metro Odessa to gain 40K in five years - Odessa American: News

It is almost unreal with how the Permian Basin is growing right now!! I can not even imagine though how it will be with all of those extra people considering it is already busting at the seams here now! Hopefully the city will make choices for more subdivisions and apartments...Along with fixing our roads before this many more people come to town. Ridiculous for a town our size to add 40k more people in only five years. If this boom holds that is, but that is really anyones guess.
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Old 08-05-2014, 07:10 PM
 
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Default Crazy growth projected for Odessa/Midland!

Economist: Metro Odessa to gain 40K in five years - Odessa American: News

It is almost unreal with how the Permian Basin is growing right now!! I can not even imagine though how it will be with all of those extra people considering it is already busting at the seams here now! Hopefully the city will make choices for more subdivisions and apartments...Along with fixing our roads before this many more people come to town. Ridiculous for a town our size to add 40k more people in only five years. If this boom holds that is, but that is really anyones guess. That would be basically 300k people in both Odessa and Midland combined.
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Old 08-05-2014, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Both are quite the boom town. Also with the growth that's been occuring, I wouldn't be surprised if the Midland/ Odessa area already exceeded past the 300,000 mark.
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Old 08-05-2014, 07:42 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Is there enough water there to sustain such a population?
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:04 PM
 
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I sincerely hope the growth last but many of us have seen it before.
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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I sincerely hope the growth last but many of us have seen it before.
Oh, lordy, not at that rate, please!

This boom is just different. If it were anything like the past, M-O should have already busted by this time. But I cannot imagine a boom of this magnitude lasting decades.
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:34 PM
 
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I hope you're right. McDonald's and Burger Kings with plywood nailed over their plate glass windows and weeds growing up in the parking lots scared me enough.

If this one last ten years, I'll be a happy camper. A really old camper but happy.
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Oil Capital of America
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Both are quite the boom town. Also with the growth that's been occuring, I wouldn't be surprised if the Midland/ Odessa area already exceeded past the 300,000 mark.
I have done some back of the envelope calculations based on census data and I believe that the population does indeed already exceed 300,000.
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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I hope you're right. McDonald's and Burger Kings with plywood nailed over their plate glass windows and weeds growing up in the parking lots scared me enough.

If this one last ten years, I'll be a happy camper. A really old camper but happy.
It did get pretty bad after the '84 meltdown for sure. Not a fun time.

IIRC, this current one has been going on since about 2007 or 2008. My cousins and friends who still .ive there tell me that the traffic really is THAT bad.
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Old 08-05-2014, 09:17 PM
 
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I have lived in Midland for a long time now and its so crazy that I am tired of it.We have really stupid drivers and it seems like there is at least one fatality a day in the area.The cost of living is through the roof.I feel fortunate that I live in a big paid for house that was bought during the bust.Forget customer service at lots of places.I don't know how long I will live here at this point as I may try to cash in on the boom myself.I feel sorry for the needy in this town.
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