America's Fastest-Growing Counties: The 'Burbs Are Back (TX top 4/6)

Forbes ^ | Sept. 29, 2013 | Joel Kotkin

[bgill]

Not surprisingly several of these fast-growth areas are in burgeoning Texas metro areas. The population of Williamson County, on the outskirts of Austin, has expanded 7.94% since 2010, the strongest growth in the nation over that period. Far from turning into a slum, over the past 25 years the county’s residents have enjoyed the Lone Star state’s fastest rate of income growth and the sixth-highest in the nation.

[dfwgator]

I lived in Broward County, I’ve been in Texas for the past 25 years.

Best decision I ever made.

[rrrod]

unless you want to turn out like Broward County Florida Id suggest you make the lifes of those out of staters completely miserable!!!!!!

[rrrod]

I live in Broward county part time....spend the rest of my time in Colombia..safer, cleaner and nicer people.

But Broward does have a fine Tea Party!

[cradle of freedom]

I think slowing down suburban sprawl will help to keep out out-of-state liberals who move in in large numbers. When liberals move in by the millions, they do not absorb the customs and beliefs of the people, they bring their own social-cultural-political environment with them recreating the places they have left behind. This has happened to Florida big time. In Florida they build new neighborhoods in an assembly line fashion creating hundreds of new homes in a matter of weeks. This encourages outsiders to come in and they bring their friends and relatives soon after. They feel comfortable because all the people around them are just like them. They do not have to accomadate themselves to people who have a different culture. It is much like how immigrants form ethnic enclaves and live among people who speak the same language and have the same culture.

Texans and Southerners have to slow down the massive building around the large cities. Texas and Florida have a flat landscape which is easy for the big home builders to develope into huge multi-hundred home neighborhoods. I saw a great documentary about what has happened to Cleaveland, Phoenix and some other cities. As the exurbs grow, the inner ring suburbs become abandoned and degenerate into slums. Suburban sprawl is a problem for everybody not just liberals. Growth that is too fast has unforseen consequences.

If you DON’T build it, they WON’T come.

[Ditter]

“don’t build it and they won’t come”>>>>>>

They come for the jobs and they need the houses/apartments to live in. Houston is booming like nothing you have ever seen. The center of the city has already crashed years ago and is back. The Heights, River Oaks, West University, all old neighborhoods and again they are the most expensive properties in the city.