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Raleigh, Columbus, Phoenix, Boise, Grand Rapids, Madison, etc.
Manageable small cities that offer homeownership opportunities, good public schools, work/life balance and car ownership. We millennials are already coming of age, abandoning the rat race for slower pace of life.
As terrible as it sounds, the reason so many of them are growing the way they are is because most of them are racially homogeneous. Especially Raleigh and Boise.
Raleigh is actually quite diverse, as are most of the others within the city proper and even in some of their suburbs.
Basically. I’d go with GDP per capita that’s not natural resources-based. San Jose. San Francisco. Lower Fairfield County. Boston. Seattle. Places that create intellectual property. San Jose is the giant.
Raleigh, Columbus, Phoenix, Boise, Grand Rapids, Madison, etc.
Manageable small cities that offer homeownership opportunities, good public schools, work/life balance and car ownership. We millennials are already coming of age, abandoning the rat race for slower pace of life.
As terrible as it sounds, the reason so many of them are growing the way they are is because most of them are racially homogeneous. Especially Raleigh and Boise.
I actually don’t consider Raleigh a qualifier for this thread. It’s a state capitOl in one of the fastest growing states, with some of the most aggressive policies toward attracting investment. It has a favorable climate. It has two MAJOR universities surrounding it. IMO Raleigh should be having the wild success and growth we know it for. This thread is more about cities that have grown in spite of the otherwise less than favorable conditions they are associated with.
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Richmond. It's like the only independent city in the country doing well. It literally has no county or suburban tax base.
In what sense, do you consider an independent city doing well? Like say, if they continue to see population growth year after year?
And I thought DC and Saint Louis didn't have a county or suburban tax base either, and were mostly urbanized. IIRC Lynchburg, VA is an independent city, and was doing well last I checked. Though it's smaller, than those other 3 that I mentioned.
In what sense, do you consider an independent city doing well? Like say, if they continue to see population growth year after year?
And I thought DC and Saint Louis didn't have a county or suburban tax base either, and were mostly urbanized. IIRC Lynchburg, VA is an independent city, and was doing well last I checked. Though it's smaller, than those other 3 that I mentioned.
I consider DC it's own thing, it's not apart of a state in the first place.. I was specifically thinking about Baltimore and St. Louis with my statement. Lynchburg is definitely doing great and I can't believe I didn't think of it. There are other Virginia cities doing well but they aren't stand alone cities in the traditional sense. Va beach, for example, is a country. Or atleast it absorbed it's county.
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