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Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
51791 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 12:08 pm
Stealing from Summer on tRant.

I checked the following schools: A&M, tu, UH, BU, TTU, OU, LSU

Houston
1. UH 95K
2. A&M 56K
3. t.u. 34K
4. Tech 11K
5. LSU 9K
6. BU 8K
7. OU 4K

Dallas/FW
A&M 41K
t.u. 30K
Tech 29K
BU 14K
OU 11K
UH 5k
LSU 5K

San Antonio
A&M 11K
t.u. 9K
Tech 4K
BU 2K
UH 2K

So there isn't a lot of educated people in SA.
Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
9006 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 12:10 pm to
UTSA
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62026 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 12:15 pm to
The pop is 1/4 of Dallas or houston so the numbers work out
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62026 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 12:16 pm to
The Tu numbers don't shock me I'm actually surprised they aren't lower, so many cant wait to leave the state
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
51791 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 12:25 pm to
quote:

The pop is 1/4 of Dallas or houston so the numbers work out


Good point. I was thinking they were a little bigger.


quote:

The Tu numbers don't shock me I'm actually surprised they aren't lower, so many cant wait to leave the state


That and they stay in Austin.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134141 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 12:50 pm to
quote:


So there isn't a lot of educated people in SA.


Not fair, you combined Dallas and FW

SA is bigger than DAL.
Posted by DBU
Member since Mar 2014
19059 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 1:04 pm to
I think the San Antonio numbers are going to start going up rapidly in the next couple of years.
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62026 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 1:13 pm to
That's really misleading though. SA city limits incorporate a 60 mile radius

The Dallas metro area is still 4 times bigger pop density wise
Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
9006 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 1:51 pm to
Yeah San Antonio has ridiculously gamed that number. The city limits of San Antonio are essentially the Bexar County line, and Bexar County is a very large county in terms of physical size. You can see this for yourself: when you drive toward San Antonio you cross into Bexar county and then seconds later you hit the city limit sign. While still way out in BFE surrounded by fields! It's absurd. You practically just left Seguin but you are suddenly in "San Antonio" without a building in sight. If Houston did the same thing and expanded its city limits to the borders of Harris County it would have a higher population than Los Angeles and be second only to NYC.
This post was edited on 1/20/16 at 1:54 pm
Posted by greenbastard
Parts Unkown
Member since Feb 2014
2740 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 1:53 pm to
quote:

I think the San Antonio numbers are going to start going up rapidly in the next couple of years.

How so? The fall of oil prices are probably going to keep Yankees and Californians from thinking twice about moving to Texas' Little Mexico. South Texas (Or North Mexico, depends how you see it ) has taken a hit from the energy downturn (Eagle Ford). Houston has been overrun already with nasty transplants but the fall of oil has slowed that down. I think any growth in Texas from here on out will depend on how fast oil can recover.


Non Texans living in Texas suck.
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62026 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 1:58 pm to
Houston did sort of do the same thing as it annexed all surrounding communities as it grew.

Arlington, Plano, ect would all be Dallas if it had done as houston did
Posted by greenbastard
Parts Unkown
Member since Feb 2014
2740 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 2:00 pm to
quote:

Yeah San Antonio has ridiculously gamed that number. The city limits of San Antonio are essentially the Bexar County line, and Bexar County is a very large county in terms of physical size. You can see this for yourself: when you drive toward San Antonio you cross into Bexar county and then seconds later you hit the city limit sign. While still way out in BFE surrounded by fields! It's absurd. If Houston did the same thing and expanded its city limits to the borders of Harris County it would have a higher population than Los Angeles and be second only to NYC.

No kidding! Driving in from Houston, you first see the city limits sign almost as soon as leaving Seguin. Look around and you'll only find rural truck stops and open fields.

Driving towards Corpus, I always see the Now Leaving San Antonio City Limits sign and think to myself, "didn't I leave San Antonio a long arse time ago???"

Sometimes I wonder if they count the cows in some of those pastures as part of their population.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
51791 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 2:12 pm to
quote:

Houston did sort of do the same thing as it annexed all surrounding communities as it grew.


I remember the big stink when they annexed Kingwood.

Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
9006 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 2:16 pm to
quote:

Houston did sort of do the same thing as it annexed all surrounding communities as it grew.


Not nearly to the same extent. The population of Harris County is DOUBLE that of the city of Houston. The population of Bexar County is 1.8MM and the City of San Antonio is 1.4MM

All cities in the south and west have done a good deal of annexation but San Antonio is just on a whole other level.

The "San Antonio is bigger than Dallas" brag is disingenuous. The Metroplex has an order of magnitude larger population than San Antonio - Austin; it's just that the City of Dallas itself has a relatively tight corporate limit and even within that limit it has lots of donut hole "cities" that detract from the official population of the literal City of Dallas.
This post was edited on 1/20/16 at 2:22 pm
Posted by agalloch
Portland, OR
Member since Jun 2015
1647 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 2:59 pm to
I'd be interested to see where most Ags end up outside of Texas or the South. My guess is financial types in New York or Chicago, or engineers in Canada working on fracking/pipelines.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
51791 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:05 pm to
Did you miss the other thread?

Top out of state cities.

San Fran 3.2K (Apple, Google, Cisco)
Washington DC 3.1 K (Army, US State, US House)
New York City 2.4K (Bloomberg, IBM, Citi)
Denver 2.4K (Lockheed Martin, Encana, Anadarko)
Los Angeles 1.9K (Dreamworks, Amgen, USC, SpaceX)
Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
Member since Oct 2015
15005 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:11 pm to
It would be nice to see where TCU falls, at least in DFW
Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
9006 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:19 pm to
I was going to say NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco because those cities have so many financial sector jobs and because Tech is booming / has boomed so big in the Bay Area and because Washington houses so many military and ex-military contracting and lobbying jobs.

Looks like I was mostly correct, except that I was wrong on Chicago. Surprising. I guess we just don't go to Chicago for some reason. It's a pretty darn cool town if you stay away from the south side.
Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
9006 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:21 pm to
quote:

It would be nice to see where TCU falls, at least in DFW


TCU is a small school that attracts a lot of Californians who move back. I'd guess it is beneath OU, A&M, UT, and TTech.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
51791 posts
Posted on 1/20/16 at 3:31 pm to
Added TCU & SMU

Dallas/FW
A&M 41K
t.u. 30K
Tech 29K
SMU 27K
TCU 20K
BU 14K
OU 11K
UH 5k
LSU 5K
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