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If a city isn't already on the map by now, it likely never will be.
Raleigh-Durham-Cary is one of the few small cities that has the prerequisites to make the transition to a major US city. Give it 30 years, and it will be the most relevant southern city.
Well IMO a big city is defined by the presence of a Federal Reserve bank and a United States Court of Appeals. RVA. Home to the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank and the Forth Circuit
That only means it was a major city at one time. Kind of like New Orleans.
Is this a typo?
At the city level, Raleigh's approaching a half million, while its county is over 1.1Million, and the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) is 2.1 million.
Alabama sees more foreign investment dollars per person than any other state, and a lot of that money is going into manufacturing, especially automotive. Birmingham will get more than its fair share. Huntsville will continue to grow. Mobile will shake off its torpor.
But Montgomery is pretty much hopeless. The joke goes, "If I learn the world is coming to an end tonight, I'm driving to Montgomery, Alabama. It'll end there fifteen years later." 50 miles to the east, Auburn is pretty much going through a robust expansion with a nice quality of life, to the point that people who are forced to work in Montgomery live in Auburn and commute.
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