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I Read that, not sure how they came up with article considering El Paso's active current population growth and with tons of new home and commercial developments, you would never know. Fact- 2018 El Paso population- city estimates at 847,000 State has it at 923,000 comparing City pop. to the so called "ABQ metro" 903,000 a difference of 60,000 WOW, at the same time New Mexico communities adjacent to El Paso City limits and county total approx. 50,000 all population within El Paso County! Did you scroll down on that article?
I Read that, not sure how they came up with article considering El Paso's active current population growth and with tons of new home and commercial developments, you would never know. Fact- 2018 El Paso population- city estimates at 847,000 State has it at 923,000 comparing City pop. to the so called "ABQ metro" 903,000 a difference of 60,000 WOW, at the same time New Mexico communities adjacent to El Paso City limits and county total approx. 50,000 all population within El Paso County! Did you scroll down on that article?
Umm, what?? I didn't understand a word you said in the middle there, about adjacent New Mexico communities totaling 50,000 and being in El Paso County?? Say what?!
Albuquerque's metro population in 2017 was actually 910,726
I don't give a damn what your state estimates El Paso to be. The only thing that matters are the official estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. They calculate these estimates the same way for every city, metro and state! The commuter percentage thresholds are also the same for constituting every MSA and CSA.
El Paso doesn't attract enough commuters from New Mexico counties for them to be included in its MSA. Sorry, it's just the way it is.
Prove it! Juarez currently has 1.6 million people and in 2005 had a per capita GDP of $13,000. Compared to Albuquerque with a per capita GDP of $47,532 and about 909,000 people in 2016. Juarez would have to have had one hell of an economic growth spurt to surpass Albuquerque in GDP.
Since you can't prove that Juarez has a "richer" economy than Albuquerque I'll prove that it doesn't. Below is a link in Spanish which shows at the bottom that Juarez only had a per capita GDP of $11,624 in 2015.
El Paso doesn't attract enough commuters from New Mexico counties for them to be included in its MSA. Sorry, it's just the way it is.[/quote]
910,000? keep wishing, I've often wonder since New Mexico's existence, why it never has been a State where people move to in droves, the mountains are the only attractive parts of the State but not enough to entice tons of people to move there. Also probably more commuters from nearby New Mexico counties, than ABQ has combined with all it's "metro counties" Alamogordo's Holloman Airforce base, White Sands Missile range are all tied to Ft. Bliss meaning tons of military commuters- Las Cruces? it's no wonder the State of New Mexico was able to afford to expand I-I0- 3 lanes to El Paso. Sorry it's just the way it is.
Funny how all your posts are hundreds of millions of dollars developments, or billion dollar developments. Yet when the link is opened the dollar amount is nowhere in the storyline.
What I find interesting is according to your posts, construction projects in El Paso simular to projects in Albuquerque are insanely more expensive....up to 3 or 4 times more expensive according to YOU!
That in it's own is very suspect!
Oh and don't forget El Paso which is already a poor city is 2 BILLION in debt.......thats right BILLION.
Maybe they should have used that highway money the state gave them to pay their bills,
Funny how all your posts are hundreds of millions of dollars developments, or billion dollar developments. Yet when the link is opened the dollar amount is nowhere in the storyline.
What I find interesting is according to your posts, construction projects in El Paso simular to projects in Albuquerque are insanely more expensive....up to 3 or 4 times more expensive according to YOU!
That in it's own is very suspect!
All I have posted includes links to all developments and what local media puts out. You can do your own research to find out the millions and billions.
Oh and don't forget El Paso which is already a poor city is 2 BILLION in debt.......thats right BILLION.
Maybe they should have used that highway money the state gave them to pay their bills,
I might be biased because I live in Texas, but I'd probably choose El Paso over ABQ for only three reasons:
First, it's closer to my home.
Two, it has a great Texas-style BBQ and overall better authentic Mexican than anywhere in NM.
Three, Well, it's in Texas, and is much safer than ABQ in terms of crime. Your kids can be qualified for an in-state tuition for the University of Texas system. (Yes! Because you are in Texas! )
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