STORM2K

I never thought anything like this would happen. I know Dallas/Fort Worth is a major metropolitan area, but I didn't expect this kind of news.
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By JIM GETZ / The Dallas Morning News

Population growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth region has slowed, but the area still added more people in 2006-07 than any other metropolitan area in the country, according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics.

The figures, to be released today, show that the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area – the nation's fourth-largest – increased by an estimated 162,250 in population to top 6.1 million residents. That placed it ahead of sprawling metropolises Atlanta and Phoenix in sheer numerical gain.

The metropolitan-level estimates come a week after census officials released data showing that several North Texas counties had grown at a slower pace in 2006-07 than the previous year. Overall, the D-FW area grew at a rate of 2.7 percent.

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I'd rather live in Houston, but Hurst-Euless-Bedford is ok. And my sister is getting checks for her third of an acre suburban home plaot in Euless for the Barnett Shale gas below.


And y'all do have the Cowboys.

I don't know about you, but I find significant population growth to be a BAD thing.

Category 5 wrote:I don't know about you, but I find significant population growth to be a BAD thing.

Why? Population growth, if properly managed, fuels economic growth.

Category 5 wrote:I don't know about you, but I find significant population growth to be a BAD thing.

It's not always a bad thing, sometimes it's a good thing. For example, where would be today with just 100,000 people?

And pretty much everbody West of I-35E, if they own their property, is sitting on a mini-goldmine of clean burning natural gas.

Cyclenall wrote:

Category 5 wrote:I don't know about you, but I find significant population growth to be a BAD thing.

It's not always a bad thing, sometimes it's a good thing. For example, where would be today with just 100,000 people?

IMO, alot better off.

All my ex's live in Texas and I hope they stay there.....I'm happy with the small town life here on the coast......MGC

having worked a summer in Laurel, MS, and visiting the coast, there is a lot less sediment in the water at Biloxi, anyway.


But, and I noticed this, not just in Mississippi, but working offshore as a service hand on drilling rigs in the Gulf, in the 90s, with many of the rig crew from MS, when Monday Nitro was on, didn't matter who was playing Monday Night Football, the guys wanted wrestling. And I'm pretty sure they didn't know pro-wrestling was fake. I dated a woman, briefly, who worked at the Sanderson Farms plant in Laurel, ripping the breastbone out of chickens, and she believed wrestling was real.

Category 5 wrote:

Cyclenall wrote:

Category 5 wrote:I don't know about you, but I find significant population growth to be a BAD thing.

It's not always a bad thing, sometimes it's a good thing. For example, where would be today with just 100,000 people?

IMO, alot better off.

We would still be in the stone age.

Cyclenall wrote: We would still be in the stone age.

Pollution, gone
War, gone
Debate over global warming, gone
Politics, gone
Crime, alot lower

Category 5 wrote:

Cyclenall wrote: We would still be in the stone age.

Pollution, gone
War, gone
Debate over global warming, gone
Politics, gone
Crime, alot lower

Pollution - depends whether or not technology got to that point
War - still there
Debate over global warming - I don't care about that, it would be gone though
Politics - still there and maybe worse like during the Roman period
Crime - a bit lower but not gone

I moved to the DFW area (Plano) in 1988.

Just before we moved there, Plano ended at Legacy (Called Carpenter Pkwy) & Independence. In 1988, Legacy had just been completed out to the Legacy Business Park, which at the time consisted of EDS and Frito-Lay (No JC Penney or Dr. Pepper HQ or Legacy Town Center existed yet). The Tollway ended at Frankford, and all of far west Plano along today's tollway/Midway corridor was nothing but open farmland. There was nothing north of Hedgecoxe either. Allen didn't have anything west of Central Expy. except the McDonald's and some farmland.

Frisco was still a country town with about 4,000 people. Preston was a 2-lane blacktop country road and 121 was also a 2-lane blacktop country road from McKinney all the way to DFW Airport.

It's hard to imagine the tollway going all the way to Grayson County and 380 will be the new 121 in a few years, but it keeps on growing.

We left in 2005 for Houston for better jobs, warmer winters, and something the Dallas suburbs don't have: trees.

Category 5 wrote:Pollution, gone
War, gone
Debate over global warming, gone
Politics, gone
Crime, alot lower

Pollution, you got a point. War, though, has been a factor in human life since it began and crime is only more "recent" because without law there is no crime.