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Old 05-29-2010, 11:12 AM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Brookings colleagues identify seven categories of metropolitan areas based on their population growth rates, their levels of racial and ethnic diversity, and the rates at which their adults have earned college degrees. Together, these indicators say a lot about not just these three dimensions of metropolitan populations, but also factors such as development patterns, age, household structure, economic history and trajectory, and income inequality

Full article: A New Metropolitan Map for the United States - Brookings Institution

According to their map, the Texas cities fall into one of two categories:

The demographically advantaged Next Frontier category, with a growing, highly diverse, and highly educated population. Cities: Austin, Houston, Dallas

Border Growth metro areas that experienced rapid and diverse growth, but have low levels of adult educational attainment. Cities: San Antonio, Brownsville and/or McAllen, El Paso (at least from what I can tell looking at their map, which doesn't name the cities)

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Old 05-29-2010, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Border Growth metro areas that experienced rapid and diverse growth, but have low levels of adult educational attainment. Cities: San Antonio
Haven't they heard all the SA posters who brag about how they have more college students than Austin? LOL!
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Old 05-29-2010, 02:33 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Haven't they heard all the SA posters who brag about how they have more college students than Austin? LOL!
I think even the SA forumers know that SA doesn't really retain a lot of it's college students after graduation. It's a reason why disposable income is lower in SA than in the other major Texas metro areas.
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Old 05-29-2010, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Brookings colleagues identify seven categories of metropolitan areas based on their population growth rates, their levels of racial and ethnic diversity, and the rates at which their adults have earned college degrees. Together, these indicators say a lot about not just these three dimensions of metropolitan populations, but also factors such as development patterns, age, household structure, economic history and trajectory, and income inequality

Full article: A New Metropolitan Map for the United States - Brookings Institution

According to their map, the Texas cities fall into one of two categories:

The demographically advantaged Next Frontier category, with a growing, highly diverse, and highly educated population. Cities: Austin, Houston, Dallas

Border Growth metro areas that experienced rapid and diverse growth, but have low levels of adult educational attainment. Cities: San Antonio, Brownsville and/or McAllen, El Paso (at least from what I can tell looking at their map, which doesn't name the cities)
This was a nice article AK.
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Old 05-29-2010, 06:59 PM
 
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Border Growth metro areas that experienced rapid and diverse growth, but have low levels of adult educational attainment. Cities: San Antonio, Brownsville and/or McAllen, El Paso (at least from what I can tell looking at their map, which doesn't name the cities)
actually it's just McAllen not brownsville. Since the little marker on the map is centered on McAllen.
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Old 05-29-2010, 07:59 PM
 
Location: Pasadena
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Is this the best "category" for Miami? I'm not bashing it, just wondering.

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Miami claims Diverse Giant status by virtue of its highly diverse, highly educated, but slow growing population, similar to those in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
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Old 05-29-2010, 10:13 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Is this the best "category" for Miami? I'm not bashing it, just wondering.
Click on the link AK123 provided. Miami is retaining a lot of college-educated people.
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Old 05-30-2010, 08:33 AM
 
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Haven't they heard all the SA posters who brag about how they have more college students than Austin? LOL!

It does have more college students than Austin. UTSA is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. Texas A&M is under construction. San Antonio and Phoenix border growth only? Condradicts San Antonio having a strong diverse economy, with major industries, respectable corporate presence, and one of the fastest growing, growth not generated by imigrants or illegals. Illegals aren't included in the population anyway.

Austin a new frontier and not San Antonio? Contradicts the accolades and accomplishments San Antonio has earned over the past decade. San Antonio has near the national average for people with 4 year college degrees and above the average for two year degrees.

Makes you wonder if one of those racist elitists got his foot in the door their at Brookings.

Elitists are good at creating Delusions of Granduer and cities built by pure hype!

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Old 05-30-2010, 10:07 AM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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It does have more college students than Austin. UTSA is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. Texas A&M is under construction. San Antonio and Phoenix border growth only? Condradicts San Antonio having a strong diverse economy, with major industries, respectable corporate presence, and one of the fastest growing, growth not generated by imigrants or illegals. Illegals aren't included in the population anyway.

Austin a new frontier and not San Antonio? Contradicts the accolades and accomplishments San Antonio has earned over the past decade. San Antonio has near the national average for people with 4 year college degrees and above the average for two year degrees.

Makes you wonder if one of those racist elitists got his foot in the door their at Brookings.

Elitists are good at creating Delusions of Granduer and cities built by pure hype!
Or, it's because San Antonio is not retaining its college graduates...something that is not new to the city. Like I said, go look at the disposable incomes of the Austin metro and then the San Antonio metro, and the facts should then be more clear to you. You can also look at the median income for the metro area.

Funny how you automatically call the Brookings Institute a bunch of elitists, for no good reason.
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Old 05-30-2010, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Somewhere in the universe
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Or, it's because San Antonio is not retaining its college graduates...something that is not new to the city. Like I said, go look at the disposable incomes of the Austin metro and then the San Antonio metro, and the facts should then be more clear to you. You can also look at the median income for the metro area.

Funny how you automatically call the Brookings Institute a bunch of elitists, for no good reason.
And that's really about it because it's not like Houston, Dallas, San Diego, and Miami aren't gaining illegal immigrants.
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