re: Besides your own what other SEC would you want to live in and would never live in

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Zero culture there but the people act like their city is like NY or Chicago

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Dallas still has a way to go in the "culture" department compared to NYC and Chicago... its just a newer city without as much history, so it will take awhile. However, relatively speaking, it won't be long before Dallas passes Chicago in population.

If you look at the entire Combined Statistical Areas of both Chicago and Dallas, at the current rates of growth, Dallas will pass Chicago in population by 2030.... Houston will even pass Chicago about 3 years later.

By 2040, the largest CSA/MSA's in America will look like this:

1. New York- 26.3 million
2. Los Angeles- 22.3 million
3. Washington-Baltimore- 12.6 million
4. Dallas-Ft. Worth- 12.4 million
5. Houston- 11.9 million
6. San Francisco-San Jose- 11.6 million
7. Chicago- 10.1 million
8. Miami- 9.5 million
9. Boston-Providence- 9.4 million
10. Atlanta- 9.2 million
11. Philadelphia- 7.6 million

Austin is on pace to be #20 by 2040... with a population of 4.3 million. San Antonio is on pace to be #22, at 4.1 million.

Texas is the future. Between now and 2040, the Texas Triangle (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and all in between) will likely add the same number of people to its population as the Northeast corridor (Washington, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Hartford, Providence, Boston) and the state of California COMBINED.

Those areas will still both each be larger in total population, but the majority of the growth is happening in Texas right now.