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Houston’s population might be checked with the climate crisis as its right in the path of one of the most destructive hurricane highways; It’s a few Harvey’s away from being a complete reset like New Orleans. Dallas/Fort Worth could develop into a mega city region as its location is advantageous for many reasons. I could see a catastrophic climate crisis taking New York City out of its top spot, but nothing in the foreseeable future could have any city take Los Angeles’ place. Even with a huge earthquake or a water crisis from the destabilization of the watershed from the Colorado River, Los Angeles still benefits from being on the coast and as technology advances, so will the technology around desalination of ocean water. People talk all the time about “the big one” destroying the city, but many cities around the world have large earthquakes and remain a top tier city like Tokyo and Mexico City.

In my humblest opinion, the top a Texas metro area can attain in the next 100 years is #2 metro area behind Los Angeles. By that time Texas will definitely have sway over the nation, but it may more demographically resemble a large coastal city and not the midwestern metropolis it is now.