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Old 01-19-2023, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Houston
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My point is that rents are high because supply is limited. The boom of residential skyscrapers is the market response to this. If supply is added rents will fall, but I think we are a ways away from the point where rents are too low to justify construction of the building. (Rents in downtown Austin are still much higher than in downtown Houston or Dallas for example) The reality is that each building only adds a couple hundred units at most.
It just depends on how deep demand is for downtown living at very high lease rates. It may be so deep in Austin that loss of some tech jobs, or at least the plateauing of the number of those jobs, won't be enough to start to even out demand and supply, and new buildings can still lease up quickly.
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Old 01-21-2023, 02:13 PM
 
Location: Belton, Tx
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Dallas named nation's top downtown living experience.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/da...8-02a0781dbc9b

Way to go Dallas!
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Old 01-21-2023, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Dallas named nation's top downtown living experience.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/da...8-02a0781dbc9b

Way to go Dallas!
Austin also got 2nd and Houston got 7th.

Great for Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
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Old 01-21-2023, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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Austin also got 2nd and Houston got 7th.

Great for Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
Clearly if 3 Texas cities all made top 10s in a best downtown living list, then there’s something wrong. It doesn’t make since until you click on it and see they factor COL and it’s all data driven. And that explains it. If people had a choice to live in downtown Miami, NYC or Chicago vs Dallas (or any Texas city) then that’s just hilarious.

Title is extremely misleading.
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Old 01-21-2023, 03:34 PM
 
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Clearly if 3 Texas cities all made top 10s in a best downtown living list, then there’s something wrong. It doesn’t make since until you click on it and see they factor COL and it’s all data driven. And that explains it. If people had a choice to live in downtown Miami, NYC or Chicago vs Dallas (or any Texas city) then that’s just hilarious.

Title is extremely misleading.
Yeah, the list has no Manhattan, no Center City, no SF, these are arguably among the top 5 Downtowns along with Chicago and Boston. Any list without those 3 must be highly based on subjective criteria. It's hard to place any of those 3 in the top 10, but all 3?
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Old 01-21-2023, 03:44 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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Dallas named nation's top downtown living experience.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/life/da...8-02a0781dbc9b

Way to go Dallas!
I love Dallas. But there’s no way in hell. LMAO
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Old 01-21-2023, 05:46 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Yeah, the list has no Manhattan, no Center City, no SF, these are arguably among the top 5 Downtowns along with Chicago and Boston. Any list without those 3 must be highly based on subjective criteria. It's hard to place any of those 3 in the top 10, but all 3?
Yeah tbh the only Texas downtown that even has a chance at being close to a top 10 downtown to live in is Austin. Either way I’d personally say Chicago, NYC, SF, Boston, DC, Philly, Seattle, and Miami must be on the list. Detroit, Portland, Pittsburgh, and LA also have solid downtowns.

Adding things like COL and Apartment unit size definitely must have helped the Texas cities a lot.
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Old 01-21-2023, 11:26 PM
 
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In addition to the other faults, I’m curious to know how they defined downtown in each city
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Old 01-22-2023, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Belton, Tx
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Clearly if 3 Texas cities all made top 10s in a best downtown living list, then there’s something wrong. It doesn’t make since until you click on it and see they factor COL and it’s all data driven. And that explains it. If people had a choice to live in downtown Miami, NYC or Chicago vs Dallas (or any Texas city) then that’s just hilarious.

Title is extremely misleading.
Damn, and here I am thinking I'm sharing something cool, lol. I see where everyone is coming from though.
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Old 01-23-2023, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Yeah tbh the only Texas downtown that even has a chance at being close to a top 10 downtown to live in is Austin. Either way I’d personally say Chicago, NYC, SF, Boston, DC, Philly, Seattle, and Miami must be on the list. Detroit, Portland, Pittsburgh, and LA also have solid downtowns.

Adding things like COL and Apartment unit size definitely must have helped the Texas cities a lot.
And San Diego. If we could get our downtowns to San Diego's level, I'd be pretty happy.
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