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Seems like DFW now has 6 cities in the top 100. Greater LA has 5 cities and the Bay Area has 3. For some reason I would of thought the Bay Area and LA would have more.
Philly is growing slowly, and at a steady rate. Im glad to see it. It has been in the Top 10 since it was established damn near 100+ years lol. Phoenix and Philly are neck and neck.
Not true, at all, the three factors, while they can be related, are often not related.
Actually it is true....Developers base their ability to 'build' on certain projections....current vacancy, job growth, and population increase. They follow these numbers very closely and try to make an educated prediction on the supply and demand for a particular building type.
I know, for fact, that the recent apartment boom inside the Loop in Houston is based on the job growth numbers and projections. The mayor's initiative to locate them downtown helped make the projects more feasible but if the market didn't warrant construction (like a say Detroit) they would not be building as aggressively right now
Except it isn't. The Census does surveys on this very thing. Economics is.
Why was the North the fastest-growing region before that?
Because, at the time, the cities in the north offered opportunity while the cities int eh south were way too small to seriously contend. Today, the cities of the south (sunbelt) have not only grown and matured but they can offer MORE opportunity than someone trying to make it on a middle class salary in the north.
I'm talking about the media and places like this forum, which constantly attempts to perpetuate the idea that the weather in the South has absolutely no issues whatsoever, and is constantly beautiful and perfect... and the reason why people move there. None of that, of course, is reality.
I've noticed this too. Some people love to ***** about how cloudy it is in Pittsburgh, and then they move to areas that are more susceptible to hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and extreme heat. I don't get it. I'd take four months of persistent cloud cover over any of that other stuff.
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