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Should the two cities metro area combine and be called the Corridor and could it compete with the DFW.Tampa/Orlando or SF bay area in terms of tech/bio meds jobs and affordable housing .
The Texas state government predicts 3.5 million people will move to Texas in the next three years and about 50% will be in the Corridor
And I doubt 50% will be in that corridor. Never heard of that before. Houston and Dallas alone will take at least 50% (50% of the state already live in these metro areas).
It's a rapidly growing area and I definitely think it can soon compete with DFW. I think there will need to be some major growth in San Marcos and New Braunfuls for this to happen. I certainly think it's possible.
I could definitely see this area being considered the same CSA but not the same metro as you have in DFW and Tampa St/Pete. SA and Austin are too far apart for this to be the case.
Should the two cities metro area combine and be called the Corridor and could it compete with the DFW.Tampa/Orlando or SF bay area in terms of tech/bio meds jobs and affordable housing .
The Texas state government predicts 3.5 million people will move to Texas in the next three years and about 50% will be in the Corridor
Do you REALLY want this type of growth in the area?
The thought of an additional 1.75 million people to the region in 3 years is beyond scary. It would ruin the quality of life as you know it.
Do you REALLY want this type of growth in the area?
The thought of an additional 1.75 million people to the region in 3 years is beyond scary. It would ruin the quality of life as you know it.
Agreed. Austin has a very nice quality of life and San Antonio is a very unique and interesting city. I'm hoping both cities slow down a bit in growth, I think too much growth too quickly would hurt both cities in those aspects and make them less desirable.
Also, The region would be so ridiculously sprawled out if they became one metropolitan area like DFW. San Antonio and Austin are more than twice the distance each other as Dallas and Fort Worth. Economically, they could compete with DFW, but being such a large, spread out area, the area wouldn't run so efficiently.
I say that the SA-to-Austin is far too distant in order to compete with DFW as an urban corridor. Those cities are about 80 miles apart, which is still quite a distance to still be considered a multipolar region.
South Florida is a region where West Palm Beach is 60 miles from Miami, and even then, much of Palm Beach County has an identity all its own. They have separate TV and radio markets from Miami/Ft. Lauderdale for example. I thought they related with Miami the same way Riverside/San Bernardino related with Los Angeles, but that is not the case.
Also, isn't Austin mainly growing to the North, as well as SA? There is growth to the south of Austin, but I've always thought the north and western sides of Austin contained the majority of the growth.
I'll also ask, not if and when, but why? The very things that make Austin and SA such awesome cities would be ruined if you had an extra 1-2 million people flocking there. A lot of people would argue that the charm of Austin has been diluted enough as it is. A city of 700,000 is not a "college town" anymore. And the more people you have in a region, the more "Big-City" problems you have to deal with.
And I thought Austin and SA prided themselves on NOT being Dallas or Houston.
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