Will houston surpass chicago as the third largest city (live, best, cost)
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Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by Texamichiforniasota
While no place is immune, there are places that are safer:
If you like an area enough, you should stay there. But Natural Disaster risk is one of the many things you should consider when moving to any area.
The only place I've lived where I was struck by multiple natural disasters was Houston/Galveston. Some of that is that I lived there for many years, but a lot of that is that Houston is higher risk than most parts of the country.
That map confirms that here in Phoenix, we are immune from all natural disasters, the worst that occurs here is occasional flooding in some low lying areas, but that's it.
It was not absurd in the least, but true and measured:
Harris County TX (Houston Area)
Movers within the same county - 534,060
Movers from same State Different County - 87,951
Movers from different State - 77,766
Movers from Abroad - 46,290
Ft. Bend County TX (Houston Area)
Movers within the same county - 27,775
Movers from same State Different County - 28,607
Movers from different State - 11,981
Movers from Abroad - 7658
If you run the numbers from DFW and Austin, it would look different.
Looks like an even greater percentage of in-staters than Houston.
Dallas County (Dallas)
Movers within the same county - 282,049
Movers from same State Different County - 69,647
Movers from different State - 43,478
Movers from Abroad - 20,595
Travis County (Austin)
Movers within the same county - 144,763
Movers from same State Different County - 50,083
Movers from different State - 32,542
Movers from Abroad - 10,551
Just for grins, looking at people moving to Chicago:
Cook County (Chicago)
Movers within the same county - 518,265
Movers from same State Different County - 52,376
Movers from different State - 88,902
Movers from Abroad - 37,823
Well look at that - more people moved to Chicago from other states than from other counties in Illinois!
Note that all of the stats I posted above only refer to people moving TO these counties - it does not represent NET migration, which subtracts people moving away.
Houston is just about even in NET domestic migration (negative within the state, positive from out of state) while Chicago is losing both in and out of state.
Last edited by RocketSci; 09-01-2017 at 06:16 PM..
It was not absurd in the least, but true and measured:
Harris County TX (Houston Area)
Movers within the same county - 534,060
Movers from same State Different County - 87,951
Movers from different State - 77,766
Movers from Abroad - 46,290
Ft. Bend County TX (Houston Area)
Movers within the same county - 27,775
Movers from same State Different County - 28,607
Movers from different State - 11,981
Movers from Abroad - 7658
Of course it's absurd. There's more to the Country than Chicago and the Texas Metro's.
I responded to your questions, showed that there is nothing absurd that in-state domestic migration was greater than out of state for Houston, and again responded that it was similar for Austin and Dallas, which you specifically challenged.
Of course there is more to the country than Houston and Chicago - BUT THIS IS A HOUSTON VS CHICAGO THREAD.
I don't know what your point was, or what was so "absurd" in the first place, but whatever.
I responded to your questions, showed that there is nothing absurd that in-state domestic migration was greater than out of state for Houston, and again responded that it was similar for Austin and Dallas, which you specifically challenged.
Of course there is more to the country than Houston and Chicago - BUT THIS IS A HOUSTON VS CHICAGO THREAD.
I don't know what your point was, or what was so "absurd" in the first place, but whatever.
It was you that had an issue and challenged me when I said this to jbcmh81: "Yeah, right.
This is about as absurd as your past claims that almost everyone that moves away from Columbus returns eventually."
I agree with RocketSci most people who move in most areas are moving within the same metro area.
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