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Old 09-28-2007, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Utopia
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Does anyone have any statistical information on which city in Texas has the most in-migration from other States? And where are these people coming from (Illinois, California, New York, etc.)? And to what city are they moving to (i.e., on this board I read two opinions: one that Californians were moving to E. Dallas, like Rockwall, and another saying that Californians were moving to San Antonio primarily)? And where the heck are the Midwesterners (Illinois mainly) moving to in Texas?
I have not found anything on the internet about this much, so hoping someone here has information to share.
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Old 09-28-2007, 11:01 AM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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All I know is that there are TONS of Califorinans moving to Austin.
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Old 09-28-2007, 12:33 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Does anyone have any statistical information on which city in Texas has the most in-migration from other States? And where are these people coming from (Illinois, California, New York, etc.)? And to what city are they moving to (i.e., on this board I read two opinions: one that Californians were moving to E. Dallas, like Rockwall, and another saying that Californians were moving to San Antonio primarily)? And where the heck are the Midwesterners (Illinois mainly) moving to in Texas?
I have not found anything on the internet about this much, so hoping someone here has information to share.
Houston attracts New Yorkers and most Chicagoans. Californians out number them all though.
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Old 09-28-2007, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Utopia
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You are probably right about Chicagoans going to Houston. On the news 4 years ago when I lived there for a year, the t.v. was saying that within the next 10 years Houston would outnumber Chicago as it was growing so fast. Chicago has no more room to grow, really. Chicago was not thrilled about it as in 1968, when I got there, Chicago was called Second City; because it was the second largest city in the country. Then L.A. overtook it...and now Houston is closing in.
I lived in Houston for 22 years, and never met anyone from Chicago, unfortunately. Are the Chicagoans and NY people coming in the last four years more????? I love that!!!
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Old 09-28-2007, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
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I know a guy from Illinois who lives in Arlington, another one from Illinois lives in a Dallas suburb and I work with him. Another coworker is from Connecticut and she heard the guy mispronounce a Texas city and laughed at him, asking if he was a yankee! She said that's okay, she was too! They are both very nice people to work with. In the 80's and early 90's there were alot of folks moving in from Michigan, so much that you'd see bumper stickers that said, "Last one out of Michigan, turn out the lights!" Course, there were also the ones that read, "Thanks for visiting Texas, now take I-35 and head north." Or something like that. Now we're getting overrun again and I'm starting to see more Native Texan stickers again.
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Old 09-28-2007, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
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You are probably right about Chicagoans going to Houston. On the news 4 years ago when I lived there for a year, the t.v. was saying that within the next 10 years Houston would outnumber Chicago as it was growing so fast. Chicago has no more room to grow, really. Chicago was not thrilled about it as in 1968, when I got there, Chicago was called Second City; because it was the second largest city in the country. Then L.A. overtook it...and now Houston is closing in.
I lived in Houston for 22 years, and never met anyone from Chicago, unfortunately. Are the Chicagoans and NY people coming in the last four years more????? I love that!!!
Oh, is that why it's called Second City? I never knew that.
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Old 09-28-2007, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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Now we're getting overrun again and I'm starting to see more Native Texan stickers again.
I'd get one of those 'Native Texan' license plates but they don't mean anything since you don't have to prove you were born here to get one:

Main page:
Native Texan (Daughters Of The Republic Of Texas)

Application:
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/txdotefor...vletConfig.xml

...Unlike that episode of King of the Hill where Hank Hill needed his birth certificate to get the license plate and found out he was born in New York City and hence could not get the plate, ANYBODY can get one here. I think that's stupid. My bf had to prove he had been honorably discharged from the US Marine Corps before he could get his specialty armed forces plate.
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Old 09-28-2007, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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I hear that Plano is full of yankees but that could be anybody from north of Oklahoma - LOL!
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Old 09-28-2007, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Utopia
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Yup, that is why Second City is in Chicago. Chicago USED to be the second largest city in America. Houston will kick Chicago down to #3 in about 6-8 years, I will bet...if not sooner. Houston has tons and tons of land not used yet.
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Old 09-29-2007, 05:22 AM
 
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I know that in my subd here in San Antonio-79% of the people are from California. A realtor in the Hill Country said that San Antonio has the largest influx of Californians, followed by the Hill country and then Austin. She has nickname the San Antonio-Austin-Hill Country area as California East
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