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Old 11-28-2021, 12:20 AM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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BTW, as of now, Atlanta is the 9th largest MSA in the country.

It could knock Miami out of the #8 slot within the coming decade, and it could conceivably pass the two above Miami — Philadelphia and Washington — as all four of these MSAs are close to each other in population.

But it would have to grow significantly to pass current #5 Houston, whose MSA population is above 7 million.
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Old 11-28-2021, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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Did you just do a quick eye test and come up with that $200 figure? That doesn't constitute a statistical analysis.

According to this source that lists median November 2021 rents in the nation's 100 largest cities, DC ranks 5th while Atlanta ranks 15th with a difference of $530 between their 1BR apartment median rents and $760 for 2BR's. According to this source ranking the most populous 100 cities according to 1BR and 2BR average rents for October 2021, DC comes in at 21st for highest 1BR average rents and Atlanta 41st with a difference of $548; for 2BR's, DC ranks 16th and Atlanta 31st, registering an average difference in rents of $946.

Atlanta isn't exactly a cheap city anymore with median/average 1BR rents around $1700 and 2BR's around $2200, but that's still several hundred bucks lower than DC's ~$2200 and $3100 median/average rents for 1BR and 2BR apartments respectively.
Median rent is not affordability. Actual prices for vacant units when I’m moving to a city next month is affordability. The only figure that matters is what I can actually get. I was merely pointing out the fact that average rent is impacted by the amount of units on the market.

DC offers brand new apartments for the same rent as Atlanta now and inside the DC urban city limits too.
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Old 11-28-2021, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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BTW, as of now, Atlanta is the 9th largest MSA in the country.

It could knock Miami out of the #8 slot within the coming decade, and it could conceivably pass the two above Miami — Philadelphia and Washington — as all four of these MSAs are close to each other in population.

But it would have to grow significantly to pass current #5 Houston, whose MSA population is above 7 million.
I wouldn't be surprised if Atlanta Metro hasn't already passed up Miami for the #8 spot. I believe Atlanta is growing a bit faster and there was such a small gap from the 2020 census numbers.
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Old 11-28-2021, 05:17 PM
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if Atlanta Metro hasn't already passed up Miami for the #8 spot. I believe Atlanta is growing a bit faster and there was such a small gap from the 2020 census numbers.
The gap at last census was about 50k. Atlanta would have to be growing a lot faster than Miami to make that up in a year. About 80k a year sounds about right for Atlanta recently. So Miami would have to have grown by less than 30k to be overtaken. I'm not sure how fast (or slow) Miami has been growing recently.
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Old 11-30-2021, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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The Atlanta MSA is already half of Georgia. The DFW is just stupidly spread out too. Why in the world would you want these metros to be any larger than they already are?

I don't care how many millions more move to the suburbs of ATL or DFW or Phoenix. Chicago will always be number 3 in my mind.
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Old 12-01-2021, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Katy,Texas
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The Atlanta MSA is already half of Georgia. The DFW is just stupidly spread out too. Why in the world would you want these metros to be any larger than they already are?

I don't care how many millions more move to the suburbs of ATL or DFW or Phoenix. Chicago will always be number 3 in my mind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...cities_by_area

Chicago’s only surpassed by Atlanta in terms of urban land area. The other cities on your list are significantly smaller than Chicago, by the amount of land they sprawl over.
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Old 12-01-2021, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...cities_by_area

Chicago’s only surpassed by Atlanta in terms of urban land area. The other cities on your list are significantly smaller than Chicago, by the amount of land they sprawl over.
Going off your link, the DC urban area has around 2.5 million more people in around 2/3 of the land as Atlanta’s urban area. Chicago and DC’s urban area are virtually tied in density.
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Old 12-01-2021, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...cities_by_area

Chicago’s only surpassed by Atlanta in terms of urban land area. The other cities on your list are significantly smaller than Chicago, by the amount of land they sprawl over.
I just care about Chicago and its inner suburbs and built up suburbs. Probably not much bigger than 4-5 million? The USA has few real mega "cities" and Chicago is one of them.

Atlanta and Dallas are big, but they just do have have anything close to the same feel as Chicago and they probably never will.
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Old 12-01-2021, 06:24 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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I just care about Chicago and its inner suburbs and built up suburbs. Probably not much bigger than 4-5 million? The USA has few real mega "cities" and Chicago is one of them.

Atlanta and Dallas are big, but they just do have have anything close to the same feel as Chicago and they probably never will.
And that's fine. It's good that different places have different vibes.
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Old 12-01-2021, 07:20 PM
 
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And that's fine. It's good that different places have different vibes.
Yep variety is the name of the game.

Some will say Chicago all the way and never Dallas or Atlanta.
Others would say Dallas or Atlanta all the way and never Chicago.

Funny how some on here thinks that only one way of thinking is right.
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