Will houston surpass chicago as the third largest city (live, state, populations)

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

The Houston MSA feels that MUCH bigger than DFW???????

read slower hun. He said Houston is bigger than Dallas or FW so that is why Greater Houston feels bigger.

You have one great big city of two Million people instead of one city at 1M near another city of 700K.

[Alacran]

Chi metro is still 9 million and growing.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Alacran

Chi metro is still 9 million and growing.

We're talking city populations.

[Spade]

Houstonians: If Dallas didn't have Fort Worth in it's metro, you wouldn't have been the largest metro area in the state. You'd clearly be 2nd.

Dallasites: If you didn't annex everything from here to Timbuktu, you wouldn't be the 4th largest city in the nation and you would barely be the largest city in the state as well.

Austin, San Antonio, and Fort Worth rolls there eyes at this constant bickering between the two. Dallas and Houston does the same right back at their insignificant selves.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by TheRealAngelion

Back to the original question. Absolutely! Houston will eventually replace Chicago as the third largest city in the U.S.

Houston population according to 2000 Census 1,953,631
Houston population according to 2006 Census estimate 2,074,828

Gain of 121,197 residents

Chicago population according to 2000 Census 2,896,016
Chicago population according to 2006 Census estimate 2,749,283

Loss of 146,733 residents

The greater Washington, D.C. area will also eventually replace Chicago as the third largest metro economy in the U.S.

you should draw a graph to show when this will occur

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

read slower hun. He said Houston is bigger than Dallas or FW so that is why Greater Houston feels bigger.

You have one great big city of two Million people instead of one city at 1M near another city of 700K.

LOL! I did twice. I asked because my grandfather visited the Houston area and said it is massive. With DFW being slightly larger, it was just amazing to hear that Houston feels larger.

[west336]

Trends don't continue indefinitely....that's the problem. What makes Houston grow now will not be the same reason it grows in the future, and the same for Chicago. Houston will NOT grow by 10% again by 2020, the growth will slow in the core and Chicago's will start to stabilize.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

LOL! I did twice. I asked because my grandfather visited the Houston area and said it is massive. With DFW being slightly larger, it was just amazing to hear that Houston feels larger.

size means nothing, it is how it is used

[SouthernBoy205]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

size means nothing, it is how it is used

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by west336

Trends don't continue indefinitely....that's the problem. What makes Houston grow now will not be the same reason it grows in the future, and the same for Chicago. Houston will NOT grow by 10% again by 2020, the growth will slow in the core and Chicago's will start to stabilize.

Why not??? I don't see Houston's growth lasting forever, but I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. Houston is preparing to make big moves that will keep the city thriving for the near future.