re: America’s next great city

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Rapid City, SD

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I lived there for three years. NOPE.

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The hard part of leaving Boise is that there aren't any bad areas, relative to Louisiana. There are a few areas where some semi-sketchy things go down, but there are no unsafe ghettos here.

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You should find a way to remain in Boise.

Huntsville, AL

That’s exactly what I am waiting on. 5 years

I could see Raleigh.

Wichita? Good demographics. But, terrible topography, weather, etc.

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Louisville was considered but the property crime value was too high. That's a similar reason we are leaning away from Wichita.

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Valid concern. Again though if you stay in the quieter areas it’s not a huge issue. A lot of car break ins and shite happen downtown because of the homeless and in the ghetto areas but you don’t really hear of anything outside of those places. And even downtown I have personally experienced one car break in and know of a couple others that have and all instances involved something of value (or perceived value in the case I was involved in) being left in plain sight. Again, those things are issues but mostly avoidable ones.

I will say from reading some of your posts I think you won’t get a great feel for the city without coming spend a few days here to feel it out. I wasn’t even sure how to feel about it until I had been here for a year or so. It’s definitely a city of a lot of mixed bag things, if that makes sense.

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Urban expansion brings lots of problems

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Urban Expansion = more Youts

Boise if the PNW and Cali folks moving there don’t flood it. However, growth (development oppty) outside current city is very limited..prices have gotten crazy.

Columbus OH

With Intel announcing they are building the biggest Chip Manufacturing facility here, the final build out brings 20k direct jobs and hundreds of thousands of indirect jobs. The "Silicon Heartland" is about to take off. Columbus was expected to add 300k people by 2030...now they are saying 1.5 million additional people. The amount of movement already happening on the ground...infrastructure like roads, bridges and new homes is already taking off. In the last 3 years, Columbus has landed massive facilities from Facebook, Google, Amazon and now Intel. The Ohio State University is also building an entire new campus called the "Innovation District" that will take Ohio State's enrollment prob close to 80k students...there is no stopping this growth happening in Columbus.

In reality, the cities right now are

Columbus
Austin
Nashville
Charlotte

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Easy answer is Nashville but it’s already talked about being 1996 Atlanta.

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There is one BIG difference. There is a reason Nashville hired every city planner from Atlanta and asked, “what did you guys get wrong?” The answer? Demographics. Nashville is building around executive level corporate offices and tech.