Houston Texas becoming largest populated city in US (Congress, cost, financial)
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It seems like here in Denver every other person I meet is from Texas--many of them from Houston. The main reasons for leaving? Weather, traffic, air pollution, crime, and property taxes.
(The other half seem to be from Southern California).
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by DRob4JC
I spent a lot of time in Southeast DC. It's much more spread out here in SE Texas. Yeah, you need a car to get around the city - I'm OK with that. Summers are from mid-May to mid-October - beware. I want no part of DC.
Well considering we have had 4 or 5 90+ degree days already here in DC. I'm not that intimidated by a long summer anymore. I can live with needing a car to get around. I did two years in Kentucky recently and can count on one hand the times where I rode a city bus.
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Weather, traffic, air pollution, crime, and property taxes.
And these are common reasons people leave (any big city name here.)
Houston becoming largest populated city in the US?
I'm a little confused.
According to the actual links cited it says: Houston is the 4 th most populated city, just ahead of Philadelphia by a few hundred thousand people. I believe that Houston has been in 4th position for at least 20 or more years now. The Houston greater Metro area is in the #5 position in the US; and as an "Urban Area" used by statisticians (not as broad as a "Metro Area") Houston comes in 7th place, even behind Miami.
The population of New York City is listed at around 8.4 Million and that of Houston is a little over 2.1 Million.
Therefore NYC has four times the population of Houston. Four times. If so, when will Houston overtake NYC? In 5 years, 10 years, 15 years? My guess: not in my lifetime.
Last edited by Clark Park; 05-30-2013 at 08:40 PM..
Extraodinary! NONE of these links project Houston to surpass NYC, Los Angeles or Chicago by 2020 in terms of population!!
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Originally Posted by Negotiator75
With many fortune 500 companies now relocating to Houston, its no wonder why this southern gem is such a well kept secret and BOOMING so fast. It is predicted that by 2020, Houston will surpass Los Angeles, Chicago and even New York in population.
The city Of Houston won't even pass Chicago in 7 years, much less New York or Los Angeles.
Cities like Austin have high growth rates because they're small cities. It's easy to grow by percentage when you're a metro of 2 million. At 15-20 million, not so much.
i am concerned that houston's population is getting larger but i am not sure better. east harris county is not what it was since the steel mills closed down.. the houston galleria is no longer a civilized safe place to take your kids or date, montrose has way too many crime incidents.
signed
a former houstonian
Last edited by Huckleberry3911948; 05-30-2013 at 10:15 PM..
I don't think Nyc's population count is accurate.
Too many illegal immigrants who weren't even counted in the census. I wonder if its really bigger than that.
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