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As the saying goes everythings bigger in Texas, with the next economic sprout (in these days who knows when, but it'll come eventually) it would further stimulate the growth of the major cities in TX. Assuming your saying what is the next big city and that DFW and Houston are already big cities, then it would be Austin. Not only is it the capital of TX but has a good college scene of some 50,000 students and a population of 750,000 with it's high standard of living it should top 1,000,000 easily.
As the saying goes everythings bigger in Texas, with the next economic sprout (in these days who knows when, but it'll come eventually) it would further stimulate the growth of the major cities in TX. Assuming your saying what is the next big city and that DFW and Houston are already big cities, then it would be Austin. Not only is it the capital of TX but has a good college scene of some 50,000 students and a population of 750,000 with it's high standard of living it should top 1,000,000 easily.
How about San Antonio? Way bigger than Austin and booming also.
I picked Charlotte. Its mentioned frequently on these boards and North Carolina as a whole is pretty hot right now.
One interesting thing about the northeastern states - I do see the smaller metro areas growing larger - like the Lehigh Valley, Northeast Pennsylvania, Hartford & Albany-Saratoga County. But the cities themselves are not growing much larger in physical land area.
For instance I do not see Scranton ever being able to annex most of NE Pennsylvania. The whole metro area might grow in population but Scranton and Wilkes-Barre are probably going to stay close to the same size in land area.
Many people in the northeast (outside of the existing big cities) simply do not trust big city governments anymore.
I don't know what kind of crazy sprawl some of you guys have in mind.
Austin and San Antonio are 80 miles apart.
Atlanta and Charlotte are 244 miles apart.
78 miles from downtown to downtown but suburbs are 35-40 miles apart. Then you have New Braunfels and San Marcos in between, over 200,000 people. Close to 3.8 million in six connecting counties along I-35.
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Yeah, it was definitely a close call between Charlotte and Riverside/Inland Empire, but I chose Charlotte.
Austin and San Antonio are much farther apart than San Francisco and Oakland, or even Dallas and Forth Word. Might make more sense to say follow the path of Washington and Baltimore.
Yes, it does...I can see San Antonio and Austin continuing to grow towards each other, and in the process attracting some mega-developer to create a planned community there a la Columbia, MD that gives residents access to the amenities to both cities.
San Antonio and Austin enjoy an amazingly high level of awareness in other parts of the country; IMO as high as the larger TX cities of Dallas and Houston.
How about San Antonio? Way bigger than Austin and booming also.
Actually. It's not way bigger at all. They are roughly the same size. Now historically, San Antonio is the bigger city. But Austin has made up ground within the past 20 years.
How about San Antonio? Way bigger than Austin and booming also.
Well they aren't too far apart, I mean how about the next D-FW as the next SA-A? Though I know they won't be interconnected like D-FW but it may become the same region such as LA-Riverside MSA (thats about a 90 mile distance) But that would be a long term project. The thing is assuming Texas becomes the anchor or capital for North America Free Trade say 20 years down the road after our economy revives itself, all the cities would grow but one thing wouldn't change is the capital of Texas, Austin, TX. Thus becoming the capital of the capitals of North America. And I know it's a touchy subject and for another forum, but just saying that it's prob one of the best places currently to invest and probably THE best place to invest for the long haul. I forgot to mention Columbus, OH often called "The Typical American city" It's demographics balance at 66% White 33% minority is also becoming rarer these days. I find it as a good ratio, though other may contend. It is also another city presence of about 750,000 (similar to Austin) closing in on the 1,000,000 mark and has a huge college town presence at 50,000 kids, ironically didn't they just play each other in some bowl game???
San Antonio has 1.4 million within city limits, out of the 400 square miles, 96 square miles of just recently annexed. This new mostly undeveloped annexed area is in the far south parts of the county, City South in the works, huge project.
Austin is in the 700 k range within almost 300 square miles. San Antonio is quite larger and much more heavily urbanized.
S.A. had 1.2 million in 2000 in about 300 square miles.
Metro San Antonio and city proper is about 500 k bigger than Austin. Currently San Antonio has about 2.1 million and Austin in the 1.6 million range.
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What is the next big city?
