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Is Mississippi Alabama Louisiana really bad as media say ? I hear in Arkansas if you late on rent it is crime in that state.
It depends on you. The South is not for everyone. I personally like Little Rock Metro Area in Arkansas better than where I lived in both Louisiana and Mississippi.
I am not aware of that law.. Again, I don't have any problem paying my bills on time.
I'm sure that you will be penalized with late charges and if you don't pay it within certain number of days, you will be evicted just like anywhere.
Meanwhile Idaho was #1 in growth percentage wise and it really doesn't have a big city. Boise is barely a top 100 metro. It will keep growing. Then you have Illinois with a huge city and it's in decline.
I agree. I think it's not necessarily the states with the "biggest" cities/metros that will succeed in the future, but the states with the fastest/healthiest growing cities/metros.
I feel many are missing the fact that even though Idaho is growing fast, not that many people are actually moving there the state has less than 2 million residents, adding a few thousands makes a difference. When you look at a state such as Illinois adding a few thousand when your population is already over 12 million isn't going to make that big of a difference year over year. People were saying the same thing about North Dakota a couple of years ago, and now look at it. Never even made it to a million. lol
It does have an interesting definition of Sun Belt though.
Yeah, not many people I know consider any of the Mountain states north of Colorado Sunbelt. Out of the six "Sunbelt states" that registered decline four are decidedly not part of the Sunbelt, Wyoming, West Virginia, Alaska, and Hawaii, while Louisiana and Mississippi have never really been part of the Sunbelt to begin with when it came to rapid population and economic growth. In contrast, of the ten (twelve but ten are named) "Sunbelt states" that saw increased growth, four are indisputably part of the region, Nevada, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia, two are geographically part of the region, Arkansas and Alabama, and another two are debatable, Virginia and Kentucky.
I feel many are missing the fact that even though Idaho is growing fast, not that many people are actually moving there the state has less than 2 million residents, adding a few thousands makes a difference. When you look at a state such as Illinois adding a few thousand when your population is already over 12 million isn't going to make that big of a difference year over year. People were saying the same thing about North Dakota a couple of years ago, and now look at it. Never even made it to a million. lol
While I see the point you are trying to make, North Dakota and Idaho are a false equivalency, the reason and type of growth is totally different. People went to North Dakota for the oil for the most part, I even had friends who did that. Idaho isn't the "man camp and booked hotel" type of growth, people are moving in and putting down roots.
I've only ever lived in high growth areas, Boise and Dallas both have been staggering. Boise's suburb of Meridian went from under 10k in the 90s to about 100k today. Some Dallas suburbs have made similar leaps, but in the 4th largest metro, that is alot less impressive than a barely top 100 metro.
Boise itself has almost doubled since the early 90s.
Keep in mind that while some people move for work, the vast majority move to Idaho because they choose to. Californians and Oregonians looking for lower COL could move to Texas or even Nevada for higher wages and no income tax, but a significant number pick Idaho instead. This is without Idaho having any really "Large" cities, a large number of great schools, or an oil jobs boom.
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