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Charlotte, Austin, Raleigh and Nashville have the "Juice" right now. And should continue for the next decade or so. Jacksonville despite it's size has been an underdog forever and is largely absent from conversations with it's peers, and may finally start to come into it's on this decade.
Indianapolis, Columbus and Kansas City had their boom years several decades ago and I feel now have very steady growth patterns and have the bones to support large cities in the future.
For the win. Charlotte which has been doing the right thing for a while now with good leadership, Austin (as long as they can manage COL and transit) much the same with Nashville.
Raleigh-Durham has all the right pieces for continued long-term growth and is arguably the most diversified economically of the bunch.
I'm from Raleigh, and now live in Austin and was glad to see this posted yesterday by a local news outlet. The city is well aware of it's increasing transit issues and has grand ideas to add to the red line with green, and blue lines and potentially a subway as well.
jACKSONVILLE BEING PITTED AGAINST THESE OTHER CITIES IS UNFAIR.
Why? Are you saying it won't be able to compete with them? Its metro population is bigger than that of Raleigh, though if you interpret "Raleigh" to mean the entire Triangle, then Jacksonville falls to the bottom of the pile, while most of the others are now roughly comparable in size (2-2.5m), with Charlotte at the upper end of the range.
Why? Are you saying it won't be able to compete with them? Its metro population is bigger than that of Raleigh, though if you interpret "Raleigh" to mean the entire Triangle, then Jacksonville falls to the bottom of the pile, while most of the others are now roughly comparable in size (2-2.5m), with Charlotte at the upper end of the range.
Durham serves functionally as an extension of Raleigh’s MSA. Jacksonville is the major outlier.
Why? Are you saying it won't be able to compete with them? Its metro population is bigger than that of Raleigh, though if you interpret "Raleigh" to mean the entire Triangle, then Jacksonville falls to the bottom of the pile, while most of the others are now roughly comparable in size (2-2.5m), with Charlotte at the upper end of the range.
There is a big difference between a 1.5 million metro and the rest. Jacksonville cannot compete.
To me, the operative word the OP used is "new." And from the list the new cities on a national scale that are hitting strides are:
Charlotte
Austin
Raleigh
I think we are hearing about these cities when it comes to politics, sports, business, and livability.
I agree. I should have labeled it "Raleigh- Durham" or "RDU" or the "Research Triangle". But at the same, the title of the poll clearly says "cities/metros" . It's not like the poll title was labeled as solely "Raleigh" .
Raleigh's metro is impressive, downtown not so much. Nashville keeps getting better with so much construction going on.
I agree
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