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Nothing anywhere compares to Texas metro growth right now. NWA continues to grow at a clip of around 9-10k people per year. That's plenty for this little metro area, if you ask me.

yes. the Texas growth is pretty ridiculous. I went back home to San Angelo, TX this last Christmas and it was a completely different town with traffic jams, strip clubs, Twin Peaks, and about 10 new hotels in the last 3 years. i always loved growing up there because of the smallish town 80-90k where nobody was in a rush. not the case anymore.

where i live now was about 55k when i moved here 6 years ago and no traffic issues at all. now we're around 70k and it's a CF every day on i35.

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Posted by Numberwang

Bike City, USA

Member since Feb 2012

13163 posts

Posted on 4/7/15 at 11:13 am to 3nOut

Central Texas seems to have missed the boat on infrastructure. I know there's a strong anti-freeway lobby in Austin. I understand some of it, but they have created a traffic gridlock hell down there. More roads only attract more cars, though.

We are getting all citified up here with our freeway going to six lanes through the metro. Sounds funny, but I can also remember when it was called "the bypass" and dead-ended back into little two-lane roads once you got out of town. Now they are talking about a future "by-pass" of our main freeway. This area has grown steadily for the past 30 years though. I don't remember a time when NWA wasn't adding people at a strong pace.

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Posted by Masterag

'Round Dallas

Member since Sep 2014

18830 posts

Posted on 4/7/15 at 9:18 pm to 3nOut

I'm praying that this doesn't happen in East TX. Between illegal immigration and godsamn carpet bagging Yankees I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.

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