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Old 05-31-2011, 08:44 AM
 
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Thats just insane....
yeah, that is how Big the city could presently get if it annexed everything. But it would not stop there since they would only add another 5 mile band around it. Houston is hemmed in by Pearland to the south, Pasadena to the east and Sugarland to the SW, but apart from that there is nothing else keeping it from reaching DFW in the North, Louisiana to the NE, Austin to the NW or San Antonio to the west.

The Woodlands area will probably hem it in to the North when they become their own city because Houston has decided to let them go, and they are already at the threshold where they get a pretty large Jurisdiction themselves (the 100,000 person threshold).

Spring would be at the threshold if the people who lived in the spring area were part of the city, but they are not and they cannot be annexed to Spring (same situation with Katy.

 
Old 05-31-2011, 09:11 AM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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"Spring" itself is not even a city. Just a Census-designated place. The City of Houston just tries to own everything around the metro.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 11:29 AM
 
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"Spring" itself is not even a city. Just a Census-designated place. The City of Houston just tries to own everything around the metro.
It doesn't have to try. Texas annexation laws says that it does.

Eventually it either has to release these unincorporated areas so that they form their own city or it has to annex them.

Is it common to have such huge populations that do not belong to any city?? The Katy estimates were about 250K a couple years ago and that area just keeps growing.

Common, if they were to incorporate they would instantly become one of the top 10 largest cities in Texas. The population is about that of Corpus (would probably be a battle for the number 8th spot after Houston, SA, Dallas, Austin, FW, El Paso and Arlington.

It is just weird that Houston is sole city from Greater Houston that is in the top 10 biggest cities in Texas. greater Katy is bigger than Pasadena, so is the greater spring area. The Woodlands is just about as big as Pasadena and so is the Greater Pearland area.


Pearland should be there once it annexes its surroundings. It already jumped a number of spots from 2000 to 2010 going from 60 to about 27.

League City jumped from about 55 to 30

Lubbock and Laredo are becoming beasts too. They both past Irving and Garland.

The days of DFW dominating half the list may be over. Then again places like McKinney are coming out of no where
 
Old 05-31-2011, 06:56 PM
 
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It doesn't have to try. Texas annexation laws says that it does.

Eventually it either has to release these unincorporated areas so that they form their own city or it has to annex them.

Is it common to have such huge populations that do not belong to any city?? The Katy estimates were about 250K a couple years ago and that area just keeps growing.

Common, if they were to incorporate they would instantly become one of the top 10 largest cities in Texas. The population is about that of Corpus (would probably be a battle for the number 8th spot after Houston, SA, Dallas, Austin, FW, El Paso and Arlington.

It is just weird that Houston is sole city from Greater Houston that is in the top 10 biggest cities in Texas. greater Katy is bigger than Pasadena, so is the greater spring area. The Woodlands is just about as big as Pasadena and so is the Greater Pearland area.


Pearland should be there once it annexes its surroundings. It already jumped a number of spots from 2000 to 2010 going from 60 to about 27.

League City jumped from about 55 to 30

Lubbock and Laredo are becoming beasts too. They both past Irving and Garland.

The days of DFW dominating half the list may be over. Then again places like McKinney are coming out of no where
Those days of DFW dominating the list is over, IMO. McKinney and Frisco will be the last two surprises. If you aren't already one of the bigger ones in DFW, then you won't be. Houston's suburbs are finally starting to grow. Pearland, The Woodlands (soon), League City, Sugar Land, and Missouri City all are growing and all (except The Woodlands, for now) have land that they will continue annexing.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 07:40 PM
 
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Those days of DFW dominating the list is over, IMO. McKinney and Frisco will be the last two surprises. If you aren't already one of the bigger ones in DFW, then you won't be. Houston's suburbs are finally starting to grow. Pearland, The Woodlands (soon), League City, Sugar Land, and Missouri City all are growing and all (except The Woodlands, for now) have land that they will continue annexing.
yeah, and in keeping in topic with this thread, African Americans are now moving to the burbs.

Pearland used to be scary. In fact you still see confederate flags on houses down there, but the black population has skyrocketed.

The Woodlands too. There were so many jokes about black people in the Woodlands.

but yeah, Pearland, Katy, The Woodlands, League city, Sugar Land, Missouri City, Pasadena, etc are now all big burbs
 
Old 05-31-2011, 07:56 PM
 
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I think a very important question that needs to be answered is who has the best looking Black women between Atlanta and Houston?

I've tossed and turned pondering the answer to this question many a night...
 
Old 05-31-2011, 08:05 PM
 
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I think a very important question that needs to be answered is who has the best looking Black women between Atlanta and Houston?

I've tossed and turned pondering the answer to this question many a night...
Atlanta. Houston's are too ghetto
 
Old 05-31-2011, 08:21 PM
 
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The word you are looking for is THAN.
Than compares two things such as blacks and whites. As in there are more whites THAN blacks in Houston

THEN lists things in series. As in Houston was majority white THEN it became majority minority.

sorry, that is my only pet peeve.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 08:39 PM
 
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I think a very important question that needs to be answered is who has the best looking Black women between Atlanta and Houston?

I've tossed and turned pondering the answer to this question many a night...
Equally good looking, in my opinion.

Houston definitely has the finer dudes. But people think everyone in Texas is fat and ugly like the rappers.
 
Old 05-31-2011, 08:45 PM
 
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Blacks in Houston are way more ghetto then Northern Cali.
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