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Originally Posted by plinko
Wow. So Austin's MSA is right around 2.35-2.4M in 2020 right? To get to 4.5M by 2040 that's even above Phoenix 1990-2010 growth (2.2M-4.2M) with a much better economy. Staggering.
What's interesting to me is that Austin now doesn't feel nearly as spread out as Phoenix did in 1990. That's a very good thing.
Still, they definitely need to build some infrastructure to capture all that growth. Phoenix had the benefit of filling in mostly flat agricultural land within the existing arterial mile road grid (with some notable exceptions at the north end of the Valley). Austin will have a much harder time in that the land isn't flat and is mostly 'forested' for lack of a better term.
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The July 2019 estimate for the 5 county metro was 2,227,083. The big issue here is traffic, though, I think Austinites whine too much about the subject. Traffic is an inevitable consequence of living in a city. But, we do lack the level of infrastructure that other cities are size have.