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Leon Valley population:10,000- Bedroom city, compact packed little suburb surrounded by San Antonio, where I grew up.
Helotes- population 25,000 Hill country setting, trippled in size overnight, ranked as the top suburbs
SAN ANTONIO (San Antonio Business Journal) – San Antonio suburb Helotes is one of the nation's eight most prominent "boom towns," according to The Gadberry Group of Little Rock, Ark.
Helotes ranked third on the list behind Queen Creek, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb, and Enterprise, Nev., a suburb of Las Vegas.
According to Gadberry, Helotes popoulation increased 352 percent from 2000 to 2008. Some 3,080 households lived there in 2000, but 13,919 households called it home eight years later.
Hispanic households were the primary driver of growth, increasing 674 percent over eight years.
The Arkansas consulting firm said 47 percent of Helotes households are bilingual, the median age is 34 and average household income is $83,358
I wouldn't consider Berkeley or especially Oakland to be suburbs. They are both quite urban in their own right and I don't think it's accurate or fair to either one of those places to be labeled a suburb. Some parts of Oakland are just about as "inner city" as you can get (and I mean that in both a good and bad way).
For the most part, suburbs seem the same to me, but there are a few that stand out:
Los Angeles:
Torrance
El Segundo
Westminster
Chicago:
Lincolnwood
Skokie
Niles
Miami:
Kendall
Coral Gables
Hollywood
Atlanta:
Norcross
Dunwoody
Suwanee
Dallas:
Plano
Garland
Irving
Houston:
The Woodland
Sugar Land
Kingwood
Frankly as a fellow Angeleno\ Pasadena resident most wouldn't consider Torrance\ El Segundo\ Westminster [which isn't even in LA county] as favorite suburbs of Los Angeles. Definitely Pasadena, Santa Monica & Malibu are much more favored than the suburbs you suggest.
I think I count metro areas and suburbs differently than some people...I lump the Bay Area into one big metro where SF is city center and all other Bay Area cities (SJ, Oak, Richmond, etc.) are it's suburbs. Same thing with Seattle and Bellevue, Everett, Tacoma, etc.
These are all neighborhoods in the city of Seattle, not suburbs...hell, Queen Anne is just minutes north of downtown Seattle.
They all feel pretty suburban to me; we have these arguments on the Atlanta forum about what constitutes a 'suburb' all the time.
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