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Yakima is in one of the least appealing parts of the state. Wenatchee, Leavenworth and Chelan are the small central WA towns to be as they are in a more scenic location.
Is Yakima’s natural environment that bad? The area around the Tri Cities seems worse and yet that area is booming.
Both are dry with four seasons. Yakima has some mountains but nearby they're mostly barren.
The Tri Cities has a similar agricultural base but it also has the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Hanford cleanup might also contribute a lot. The Columbia River is a lifestyle add.
I really don’t know what’s wrong with Louisiana compared to the rest of the South. Like SC, TX, FL are doing well.
You can blame the lack of beaches but it’s not like Atlanta or Austin is a beach life (granted Atlanta has a pretty mild summer comparatively)
The entire bottom 1/4 of the state is several feet below sea level.
In almost that entire area, the elevation varies by less than 2 feet unless filled in by people's ambition (re; millions tons of dirt/ mud & stone deposited in the past couple of hundred years).
Driveways, roads and home beds are basically/ all elevated mounds of fill.
Entire towns are built in this way.
The rest is virtually all/ semi-swamp sugar cane flats.
Once you get north of that, Louisiana is sort of hilly/ largely unspoiled, heavily forested and gorgeous.
beaches in Louisiana don't really happen as much as that below grade/coastal plain gradually gives way to marshes and sand.... and tides.
The entire bottom 1/4 of the state is several feet below sea level.
In almost that entire area, the elevation varies by less than 2 feet unless filled in by people's ambition (re; millions tons of dirt/ mud & stone deposited in the past couple of hundred years).
Driveways, roads and home beds are basically/ all elevated mounds of fill.
Entire towns are built in this way.
The rest is virtually all/ semi-swamp sugar cane flats.
Once you get north of that, Louisiana is sort of hilly/ largely unspoiled, heavily forested and gorgeous.
beaches in Louisiana don't really happen as much as that below grade/coastal plain gradually gives way to marshes and sand.... and tides.
Lafayette sits at around 40ish feet above sea level. Baton Rouge is also a couple of feet above sea level. Florida has a lower average elevation and certainly don't have the same economic issues Louisiana has.
Albuquerque is absolutely due for a boom. Phoenix and Denver overshadow it as neighbors, but I think it's got a lot going for it. It's in the desert, but it's not scorching. It's got such a rich cultural heritage in the region. It's got beautiful scenery. The issues are water, crime, and the schools, but it's not like that's not like that's not an issue in Phoenix and Las Vegas and they've exploded.
These cities aren't lacking growth, there exploding. The Waco-Temple-Killeen region is home to over 800,000 residence and growing at an annual rate of 2% or 10,000 annually. This is primarily do to affordability compared to Austin down the way.
The interesting thing about Pittsburgh is: High-tech, robotics and related fields have saved the Steel City's bacon and spilled over into surrounding Allegheny County, but the counties surrounding Allegheny have seen none (or very little) of the benefits and remain the Land of the Forgotten — they're still looking for something that will replace the departed mills.
Exactly. The rest of Western Pennsylvania is basically on life support at this point. Lawrence County has now been absorbed into the Pittsburgh MSA. Pittsburgh's MSA is huge in area, and I think that just speaks volumes of how bad these small towns and cities are doing in the area. Night and day from the City of Pittsburgh to 90% of Western PA.
Exactly. The rest of Western Pennsylvania is basically on life support at this point. Lawrence County has now been absorbed into the Pittsburgh MSA. Pittsburgh's MSA is huge in area, and I think that just speaks volumes of how bad these small towns and cities are doing in the area. Night and day from the City of Pittsburgh to 90% of Western PA.
It's the brain drain, lack of innovation, and poor levels of new job growth in different categories for most of western PA. This is in addition to the more insular Appalachian culture outside of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Cambria County (Johnstown), Somerset County, Fayette County, etc. are all generally losing 10% of their population every decade.
These cities aren't lacking growth, there exploding. The Waco-Temple-Killeen region is home to over 800,000 residence and growing at an annual rate of 2% or 10,000 annually. This is primarily do to affordability compared to Austin down the way.
It's not stagnant in population, but economy wise it's far from booming. Waco has Baylor while Killeen has Fort Hood I mean Fort Cavazos, though, both are economic driver for the two areas.
Both areas will be ok...but at the end Austin and DFW will continues to be much larger magnets sapping away "booms".
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