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Old 01-11-2012, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Pearland, TX
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Of course. And then we start building up like in Bladerunner.

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Old 01-11-2012, 05:34 PM
 
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Hopfully the commuter rail that has been talked about will get built between Austin and San Antonio

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It is being built,
I've read a lot about it, and they are working on it
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Old 03-19-2013, 06:15 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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One of the reasons I came here to Houston is for the close proximity to Austin........
Does anyone foresee the growth in places like Fayette County and the far reaches of Fort Bend, Richmond, Rosenberg, et al, to get to the point where the Houston area, for all intents and purposes, extends into the Austin area, or even to the point of bedroom communities along Hwy 71 rising up to serve Houston, Austin AND San Antonio???
More like Along 290 through Washington County
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Although I strongly feel metro Austin and metro Houston will become a megalopolis within 25 years, especially if Austin keeps growing eastward and Houston keeps growing westward.
I hope places like Brenham on the 290 corridor are preparing to explode with growth. I can easily see it being a bedroom city like Casa Grande, AZ, which has become a major suburb of both Phoenix AND Tucson being halfway between them on I-10. Tons of new homes and commercial development and the only thing that stopped it was the housing crash.
Funny you mentioned Brenham as it is now in the Greater Houston Area

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Interesting being that Houston Metro has reached Prairie View/Hempstead already which I never thought would happen. I just think it will take a good 20 more years to completely fill in. But with College Station growing who knows.
Its odd seeing the Houston area stretch further west than College Station, but with the addition of Washington County, Houston area is now only 20 miles away from the Austin metro (Distance between Washington and Bastrop Counties)

Only Lee County separates the two. The Town of Giddings sits about halfway in between.

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How many miles do you think Houston will stop growing away from the center? 80 miles? 90 miles? 100+ miles?
The new census areas are ridiculously large though. It is 170 Miles From El campo to Trinity

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Old 03-19-2013, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Maui County, HI
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No... unless we get high speed trains. Houstonians may be sheeple willing to spend 3 hours a day in traffic, but I doubt they'll spend 4-5 hours a day in traffic.
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Old 03-20-2013, 06:07 PM
 
Location: plano
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Ive been to Austin and greater and Austin do not belong in the same sentence... Austin wants to be weird and it is. Houston will continue to grow in all directions but maybe east but that has nothing to do with little Austin.
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Old 03-20-2013, 06:42 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Austin and San Antonio will have to meet first. Then, we'll talk.
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Old 03-20-2013, 07:14 PM
 
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Austin and San Antonio will have to meet first. Then, we'll talk.
Why would they have to meet first? They don't have to meet if they don't wanna.

We no longer do arranged marriages around here
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Old 03-20-2013, 08:07 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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That just seems like a incomprehensible amount of land to see those two metros growing together.

But i could be wrong.
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Old 03-20-2013, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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Theres way too much empty land between Houston and SA and Austin for Houston to meet either one. Even SA and Austin having a metroplex like DFW within the next 100 is even kind of a stretch. West Houston may be growing but not nearly enough to fill in the 200 miles between Houston and SA or Austin. And East side SA is pretty much open land until you get to the inner loop (410). I believe Houston will always stand alone.
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Old 03-20-2013, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Default Will Greater Houston stretch into Greater Austin or even San Antonio?

No
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