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I find the people in Raleigh like percent growth when it makes Raleigh looks good.
I find the true growth is the number that a city grows by.
I find Forbes looks at Raleigh percent growth that blows the lid off North Carolina that it is one of the fast growing cities in the USA.
The truth is charlotte gain more than twice as many people as Raleigh, but Forbes does not print that.
I find the people in Raleigh like percent growth when it makes Raleigh looks good.
I find the true growth is the number that a city grows by.
I find Forbes looks at Raleigh percent growth that blows the lid off North Carolina that it is one of the fast growing cities in the USA.
The truth is charlotte gain more than twice as many people as Raleigh, but Forbes does not print that.
I find the people in Raleigh like percent growth when it makes Raleigh looks good.
I find the true growth is the number that a city grows by.
I find Forbes looks at Raleigh percent growth that blows the lid off North Carolina that it is one of the fast growing cities in the USA.
The truth is charlotte gain more than twice as many people as Raleigh, but Forbes does not print that.
So much for Forbes accolades.
It’s not about twisting stats it’s just simply that when people or these articles talk about “fastest growing” they are almost always talking about the percentage. It’s fastest growing relevant to the cities size.
For example using the website you provided.
From 2016 to 2018 Charlotte grew by roughly 31k people. From 2016 to 2018 San Antonio grew roughly 49k people. But Charlotte has the higher percentage growth so therefore many would say and likely there’s been plenty of articles that have said, Charlotte is a faster growing city (I’m just using San An as a example of course). That’s simply all it is when talking about Raleigh growing faster. It is, just relative to its size not in total number.
Now obviously I know everyone gets stuck on Raleigh vs Charlotte but in my eyes it should always be Triangle vs Charlotte since then at least the geographic size is closer. When looking at it that way, Raleigh added about 18k people from 2016 to 2018. Durham added about 11k. So combined about 29k people. Then let’s say we add Cary to that. I don’t have the exact growth numbers but let’s assume from past indications it grew by 6k people from 2016 to 2018. Then looking at the land area totaled you could say...
35k people vs 31k people from 2016 to 2018
311mi vs 297mi
Very rough numbers and this wasn’t supposed to be some boost to say “see Raleigh does grow faster!” It was just simply to show that metro to metro things are probably pretty close even down to raw numbers. And further on my point that Charlotte and Raleigh are just in different circumstances. Charlotte is the center of its region where as Raleigh is an anchor to its region but also has a lot of other cities that people live in while still probably having a relationship with Raleigh.
2018 we’re looking at what? maybe Charlotte 2.7m, Triangle 2.3m maybe, and Triad 1.7m or so? So theres anywhere from about 400k-600k gap between each. I would say that seems about right tho obviously Charlotte and Triangle will quickly widen that more. All 3 are great for NC though and pretty much just comes down to preference or job field.
They are. Still bumpkins though. I appreciate the place. Apparently the Charlotte posters don't. Raleigh is a great alternative.
When i'm in Raleigh it just feels like the people who live there are happy, love life, and like living in that city. When in Charlotte, people overall seem hateful, unhappy, and discontent with their lives. But that's just my perception.
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