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Old 04-13-2008, 03:40 AM
 
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Light rail was proposed back in 1999, but was shot down. It has only been rumored to resurface and go back to vote again.

And this past year, Austin's metro grew faster than SA's by about 14K. From 2000-2007, Austin's metro outgrew SA by 60K.
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Old 04-13-2008, 08:48 AM
 
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Others here seems to discount SA, but the superior highway system,the room to grow, and believe SA is going to go off the charts in the next few years. FSH is just the tip of the iceberg. Austin metro includes Hays County which is only 6 miles from the SA metro area. Houston and Collins county will also boom in the next few years. On the national front, something to watch is our neighbor to the east>New Orleans. I hear a lot of Chinese and Indian firms are takling a good long hard look at the city. Austinite apologist, I guess you don't remember about 15 years ago when Austin was just a sleepy little town in Texas and not well known
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Old 04-13-2008, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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The population of Austin years ago was over 500,000 and the metro area just passed 1 million. They already had the popular SXSW festival and it was known around the country as being different from the rest of the state and an oasis and it still is looked at as that way. To say it was a little sleepy town that wasn't very popular and not known is pretty much false in every conceivable way. Maybe if you said 30 years ago I would understand, 15 years ago, NO.
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Old 04-13-2008, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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Austin has changed dramatically since 1968, when I was first there. It had a population of about 180K and very few traffic problems. I liked it better back then! I didn't think it was a "sleepy little town", though. I still like parts of it, but they are a lot harder to get to.
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Old 04-14-2008, 10:45 AM
 
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There will NOT be an election for light-rail this year. Prominent officials will be working to revive light-rail plans (largely called for by the citizens) after the elections this May. Whether or not something is voted upon will depend upon the support/opposition of the city.
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Old 04-14-2008, 02:41 PM
 
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God I hope that this doesn't happen. Sprawl is bad enough in Texas and green space seems to be disappearing at an alarming place, swallowed up by big box stores, strip malls, and McMansions. Tragic...
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Old 04-15-2008, 04:54 AM
 
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Yes, San Antonio is becoming a monster city and joining the other monster like Houston and Dallas.
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Old 04-15-2008, 07:04 AM
 
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It is amazing in this state to travel down I-35 and see nothing but sprawl and growth from Oklahoma to San Antonio. Then, just a few hundred miles west, you can travel the entire state and see miles and miles of empty land. We have plenty of space for all of you crowded people in the Western half of the state. But we enjoy the sparse population and the desolation out here! Besides that, we don't have the water to support that kind of population.
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Old 04-16-2008, 05:27 AM
 
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San Antonio and Fort Worth are the most underrated cities in Texas
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Old 07-06-2008, 01:34 AM
 
Location: DFW Texas
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San Antonio and Fort Worth are the most underrated cities in Texas

I agree, and Austin is the most OVERRATED!!!
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