re: SEC Metro Growth Rates

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I'd choose Conway personally but still I think it's quite silly (not talking about your comment, talking of those who just skim right over the good and say it's a crap hole) to just deny LR has is nice areas, nice features, nice food scene, etc. What's bama got that's better- besides 2nd rate beaches- that is if you're even into those?

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Conway isn't too bad. I didn't mean to say that Little Rock is terrible. Downtown is great, as are some of the older inner suburbs like Hillcrest and the Heights.
There's just a lot more development in the pattern that you see in the older parts of Springdale down there by percentage. Most of it is in outlying towns like NLR, etc. Even parts of Conway near I-40.

We are lucky in that most of our growth came after cities started requiring landscaping and other aesthetic standards. Most of NWA towns look nicer by comparison, but its just a function of when we hit our growth spurt.

Hell, even stinky ole Springdale has stronger development codes nowadays.

Hippie Fayetteville has required landscaping and trees since the early 1990s, so if there's an ugly commercial development, it's most likely from the 1980s or earlier. More of those disappear every year.

ETA: Look at the north side supercenter or the Target center on the north side. Those developments have big, 20-year old trees in the landscaping, because they were required to plant them.