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I was watching the local county commission meeting last week and one of the commissioners said the Charlotte Metro area is the fastest growing in the country. I am wondering if that is right?
I think North Carolina would not have an unemployment problem if we didn't have so many transplants from everywhere. They come here without a job and park. I forgot to mention they also live off of us.
I was watching the local county commission meeting last week and one of the commissioners said the Charlotte Metro area is the fastest growing in the country. I am wondering if that is right?
I would imagine it's one of them. I wouldn't be surprised if a good amount of North Carolina's inflow was actually going to Raleigh-Durham though.
I was watching the local county commission meeting last week and one of the commissioners said the Charlotte Metro area is the fastest growing in the country. I am wondering if that is right?
I think North Carolina would not have an unemployment problem if we didn't have so many transplants from everywhere. They come here without a job and park.
NC grew at a breakneck pace in the 80s and 90s and had no unemployment problems back then. It was only after the 2008 crash that it increased and failed to return to normal. Don't worry though. Our glorious, infallible general assembly will get right on that. Clearly the solution is to send topless women to jail, and make life harder for gays, teachers, college students, and poor people. That'll get those numbers back up, for sure.
Not surprised Texas is at the top. The growth down there is nuts. I have to wonder if all of this growth comes at a cost? Bad traffic, water shortages, poorer air quality, etc.
Not surprised Texas is at the top. The growth down there is nuts. I have to wonder if all of this growth comes at a cost? Bad traffic, water shortages, poorer air quality, etc.
Here you can add property taxes to that. What they were talking about at the meeting was getting a deal to have more water for people in the county. That certainly has to cost money. It is a good thing; but it will cost all of us money.
NC grew at a breakneck pace in the 80s and 90s and had no unemployment problems back then. It was only after the 2008 crash that it increased and failed to return to normal. Don't worry though. Our glorious, infallible general assembly will get right on that. Clearly the solution is to send topless women to jail, and make life harder for gays, teachers, college students, and poor people. That'll get those numbers back up, for sure.
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I guess sending all those jobs overseas had nothing to do with it? I would just like to rid our state of the criminals that came here from outside the USA. The jobs were sent to Mexico and the Mexican people came here. What is wrong with this picture?
When we moved here in 1975 there were between 65 and 75 thousand people in the whole county. Now there are more than 200 thousand. I doubt we still have more people than animals though.
Last year we visited Vermont. In checking out the place we were to visit, I found that in the early American census the county we visited had about the same number of people as our county. I can't remember what the difference is now but it is major. You would expect Vermont to have grown faster since they are so close to NYC.
BTW I like what our lawmakers are doing and hope they continue at a breakneck pace. It will get rid of people that go looking for the best handouts. Let them go somewhere else to be parasites.
I was watching the local county commission meeting last week and one of the commissioners said the Charlotte Metro area is the fastest growing in the country. I am wondering if that is right?
I think North Carolina would not have an unemployment problem if we didn't have so many transplants from everywhere. They come here without a job and park.
Charlotte is one of the fastest growing for sure, but its not the fastest growing.
Oh, and Grand Rapids has surpassed the 1 Million mark.
MSA(Pop 1 Million+) Growth, 2010-2012
Austin +6.88%
Raleigh +5.14%
Houston +4.33%
Dallas +4.28%
San Antonio +4.27%
Orlando +4.18%
Denver +4.00%
Washington DC +3.98%
Charlotte +3.59%
Miami +3.56%
Oklahoma City +3.48%
Nashville +3.34%
Salt Lake City +3.29%
Seattle +3.27%
Phoenix +3.26%
Atlanta +3.24%
San Jose +3.13%
New Orleans +3.13%
Riverside +2.96%
Portland +2.87%
San Francisco +2.77%
San Diego +2.64%
Las Vegas +2.54%
Jacksonville +2.40%
Columbus +2.21%
Sacramento +2.20%
Minneapolis +2.19%
Indianapolis +2.18%
Tampa +2.14%
Richmond +1.98%
Boston +1.94%
Los Angeles +1.75%
Grand Rapids +1.69%
Baltimore +1.57%
Kansas City +1.46%
Virginia Beach +1.38%
New York +1.35%
Louisville +1.27%
Philadelphia +0.90%
Birmingham +0.76%
Milwaukee +0.71%
Cincinnati +0.66%
Chicago +0.65%
St Louis +0.29%
Rochester +0.24%
Pittsburgh +0.19%
Hartford +0.19%
Providence +0.03%
Detroit -0.10%
Buffalo -0.11%
Cleveland -0.66%
San Juan -1.47%
Last year we visited Vermont. In checking out the place we were to visit, I found that in the early American census the county we visited had about the same number of people as our county. I can't remember what the difference is now but it is major. You would expect Vermont to have grown faster since they are so close to NYC.
Vermont really isn't all that close to NYC...the absolute closest point is about 3 1/2 hours away.
I think one major difference between the scenarios you laid out for North Carolina and Vermont is that North Carolina is trying to boost its status economically while Vermont really doesn't have that kind of ambition. While North Carolina has plenty of beautiful, natural areas, it's doing its best to promote growth in its cities, especially Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. Conversely, Vermont's only real "city" would be Burlington, which has always been a hippie/granola Mecca with no desire to expand much more than it already has. The next "city" would be Montpelier which is just a pretty little mountain town, with no plans for becoming anything more than that.
Unfortunately it all depends on what the local government is trying for...those trying to spur local growth will result in the big changes which you've seen in your area recently.
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