Texas could be home to 4 of country's 10 largest cities in 2021, expert says

[TexasTowelie]

It appears Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio soon will welcome Austin as a new member of their elite club — the 10 largest cities in the U.S.

As it stands now, Austin ranks as the 11th largest city in the country, right behind San Jose, California. But a new projection from the City of Austin indicates that sometime next year, Austin will leapfrog San Jose to claim the No. 10 spot. Unless it sees an unlikely surge in population, San Jose would fall to No. 11.

Houston ranks as the country’s fourth-largest city, with San Antonio at No. 7 and Dallas at No. 9. When Austin climbs into the top 10, Texas will boast four of the country’s 10 largest cities. California currently has three cities in the top 10 (Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose).

According to this month’s Imagine Austin newsletter, released June 16, Austin’s ascent to No. 10 is coming “sooner than we had previously anticipated.” That’s because San Jose has witnessed population loss for several years in a row, while Austin keeps growing.

Read more: https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/innovation/06-22-20-4-texas-cities-largest-us-in-2021-austin/

[herding cats]

1. My home there will go up in value.

This bodes good for Texas turning blue sooner, too.

Still, I shed a tear for the loss of the old school weirdness and cheap, amazing music I enjoyed there in my college years. I'll raise the next glass of wine I drink to the memory of Leslie and the guy who used to have the car with all the happy meal and other toys glued all over it (my apologies, your name has escaped me) on 6th street. A page has since been turned and a new era is being lived.

[zipplewrath]

2. Absolutely

These cities will never crawl into the top spots of NYC and the greater LA area. But they will turn the state blue.

[Moostache]

3. The California cities was shocking to me...thought San Fran was bigger than San Jose and San Diego.

Ar any rate, if we can get out the vote in Texas and turn that state blue, it is literally over on the national level for Republicans (more so than it already is now...)

From 2010 census data...

New York-Northern NJ-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA
18,897,109
#1 - New York

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA
12,828,837
#2 - Los Angeles

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI
9,461,105
#3 - Chicago

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
6,371,773
#4 - Dallas

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
5,965,343
#5 - Philadelphia

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
5,946,800
#6 - Houston

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
5,582,170
#7 - Washington D.C.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL
5,564,635
#8 - Miami

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
5,268,860
#9 - Atlanta

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
4,552,402
#10 - Boston

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
4,335,391
#11 - San Francisco

[rownesheck]

4. Texas is ridiculously huge

and offers a nice range of climate to live in, so no surprise really. I visited Austin a few years ago for the first time in about 8 years and was blown away by the population explosion. I love that city.

One of the major problems with Texas: large swaths of empty space along with sparsely populated small towns filled with un-evolved yahoos.

On election night when Wendy Davis ran for governor, I followed the election results on my computer. In one county in west Texas area, she got 1(!) vote!!! One freaking vote!!! Of course, only like 50 people voted, but still. Long way to go out here.

[Javaman]

5. as little as 21 years ago,before the dotcom boom...

I remember being downtown, on a sunday afternoon, at the Ruta Maya Coffee house on 4th street at 2 PM. I watched a stray dog take it's time walking across Lavaca because there just weren't any cars.

Thems were lazy slow times. I miss that Austin so much.

[TexasTowelie]

6. I used to work at the Hobby Building

diagonally across from Ruta Maya and would occasionally stop in there to get a snack (the prices were too high to make it a habit). I also went there a couple of times since I young lady I knew was in a band called Happy Valley that played there every once in awhile.

[Javaman]

7. Such a different time.

All the old music venues are gone. The building were I work, was build where the Liberty Lounge used to be 🙁

[TexasTowelie]

8. Yes, I went there a few times back in the 90s.

I knew three of the guys in Soul Hat that went to Southwestern. The bass guitar player and I actually played in the concert band together (he was in the percussion section).

I miss a lot of the music venues like The Black Cat and the 311 Club along with the dance clubs like The World and Hall's. The rent for those places climbed so much that it really wasn't feasible to keep the places open since they depended on the college and twenty-something crowds that didn't have a lot of money to spend.

[Javaman]

9. The kid black car lounge

I used to go there every Wednesday night to see the flametrick subs play lol. No cover charge, made money by selling lone star.

6th street was such a different place back then, you could actually go listen to a real jazz band and not some frat cover band forced upon you lol