DFW among fastest-growing metro areas

[JohnT]

I don't need a census to tell me that DFW is bursting at the seams. All I have to do is try to drive somewhere or just go to my local market. I've never seen so many people in one area.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342095,00.html

[BeccaJ]

I heard that on the radio this morning about Houston too...and then they mentioned DFW and San Antonio, but i didnt hear all the details lol

[brad]

I think Houston came in at #5.. DFW was #1 and San Antonio was #3....

I just want to know.... where are all these people getting jobs?


hhglyshkm

[gardener]

DFW is also is in the top 10 undervalued real estate markets in the country.

[bondarnes]

Originally Posted by brad

I think Houston came in at #5.. DFW was #1 and San Antonio was #3....

I just want to know.... where are all these people getting jobs?


hhglyshkm

They are all freelance photographers

[JohnT]

Originally Posted by bondarnes

They are all freelance photographers

ROFL

I believe it!

[Hogleg 44]

I cringe when I drive up IH-35N, or anywhere...and see all of those new apartment buildings going up!

Each apartment unit is going to put 2 more cars on roads that can't carry what is already there.

That is why I don't ride my bike any more. An air cooled machine in 20 mph freeway traffic. No Thanks!!! Too frustrating...I might do something crazy! I get frustrated enough in my car...

...and this morning gasoline is going up to $3.20 at the stations around my place...

[brad]

Originally Posted by bondarnes

They are all freelance photographers

Heh, wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[SaSha]

Frisco is a perfect example of how fast things are building up...now in the outskirts of Tarrant and Dallas.
Last night driving by a set of Oil Rigs...I couldn't help to think of those old B/W pictures of the oil boom. How those old rigs and their vast numbers changed the landscape. If you look around DFW airport you can almost see the same thing, but in this era they are more spread apart.

[barP]

projections are that by 2035 we will be living in the san-aus-dal-okla-kan-city megalopolis.

wp.

[Concisus Cognatus]

Personally I believe we are headed for Southern Cali or Houston type of traffic snarls. Grrrrr!

One way to help soften today's and tomorrows traffic woes: Moped!

We just need brave politicians with foresight to enact legislation making it a safer way of travel and a part of an overall regional transportation plan.

We need a more comprehensive rail program that covers both Dallas and Tarrant counties better than what DART and the "T" does presently.

Costly, you bet. But taking a cue from an old GM commercial "We can pay it now at todays dollar rate or we can pay it later at tomorrows dollar rate." Either way we WILL PAY.

[Shane Jennings]

I'm just glad all those Yankees are attracted to the big cities and not West Texas!

[Concisus Cognatus]

Originally Posted by Shane Jennings

I'm just glad all those Yankees are attracted to the big cities and not West Texas!

Too-shay; tu-shay; touche(with the little thingy above the "e")

[Hogleg 44]

Originally Posted by nikonhobbyman

Personally I believe we are headed for Southern Cali or Houston type of traffic snarls. Grrrrr!

One way to help soften today's and tomorrows traffic woes: Moped!

We just need brave politicians with foresight to enact legislation making it a safer way of travel and a part of an overall regional transportation plan.

We need a more comprehensive rail program that covers both Dallas and Tarrant counties better than what DART and the "T" does presently.

Costly, you bet. But taking a cue from an old GM commercial "We can pay it now at todays dollar rate or we can pay it later at tomorrows dollar rate." Either way we WILL PAY.

Someone needs to come up with some program for auto computers that will make cars replicate the movement of ANTS!!!

Ever watch ants moving from one place to another???
One long single line, all moving at a constant speed, evenly spaced apart, no bickering, no 1 finger salutes, no road rage, and they never crash into each other!!!

It'll make you rich, if you can do it!

[Concisus Cognatus]

Originally Posted by Hogleg 44

Someone needs to come up with some program for auto computers that will make cars replicate the movement of ANTS!!!

Ever watch ants moving from one place to another???
One long single line, all moving at a constant speed, evenly spaced apart, no bickering, no 1 finger salutes, no road rage, and they never crash into each other!!!

It'll make you rich, if you can do it!

It's all I can do just successfully navigating my way out of the bed each day.

There actually was a pilot program in California back in the mid-to-late nineties, that tested the use of magnets placed under the roadway and cars equipped with a magnetic device that once they entered the freeway, allowed the car speed etc., to be controlled by the magnetic roadway. Not too far from your suggestion. I haven't heard whether it is still being tested.