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Anyways, I thought it was interesting, wondering what this well-educated, highly articulate group thought.
Certainly flies in the face of most Texas media, doesn't it?
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No shock to me...I've been saying this forever. With everyone fighting for a limited number of resources, it's no wonder there is less to go around (money, in this case).
It sort of flies in the face of conventional wisdom
...people 'voting with their feet' and all that.
Here's a similarly themed article:
Fastest growing U.S. metro area hit hard by recession - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110416/us_nm/us_florida_census_palmcoast - broken link)
Quote:
PALM COAST, Fla (Reuters) – As snow blanketed the northern United States this winter, city leaders in Palm Coast, Florida, sent postcards to thousands of out-of-state landowners who have not yet built homes on their piece of paradise.
"It's sunny and 76 degrees in Palm Coast," the mailers read. "What's the temperature where you live?"
The postcards highlighted the scenic trails and uncrowded beaches that helped make this coastal community between Daytona Beach and St. Augustine the nation's fastest growing metro area in the past decade, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.
What they didn't say: Palm Coast needs a boost after getting battered by the housing bust and foreclosure crisis.
"We grew too fast," said City Manager Jim Landon. "We fell very hard, too."
OT:
Did you know there's academic debate about whether economic 'bubbles' even exist? Of course you did.
(You've probably been saying that for years too, eh? .......ha ha ha, just kidding.) Something to do with
pricing being relative to somethingerother. It's way over my head. Economic bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why am I not surprised? Seems like every day there's yet another post that makes an attempt to prove why the South will ultimately fail- and of all the people saying so, they're from states that are losing people to the South.
All I can say is that my whole family lives in the South and guess what? Things are doing great down there. Sorry to burst yer' bubbles.
you do know these slow growth states have the highest rates of welfare in the country? even when these fast growth areas have lower wages. News Headlines
Because there is less welfare to go around in these high growth / high poverty states?
or maybe because they realize that welfare and similar services cause states to go into massive debt and possibly on the brink of bankruptcy and people will feel less initiative to get a job?
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