Six Of The Ten Fastest Growing Cities Are In Texas; Five Of Them On I-35, San Antonio To Dallas -- August 25, 2024

Locator: 48451TEXAS.

Six of the ten fastest growing cities in the US last year (2023) were in Texas. All of them, except Conroe, Texas, were along the I-35 corridor from San Antonio in the south to Dallas in the north. Conroe, TX, is on the north side of Houston.

Kyle, TX: is the second-fastest growing city iin the US, on I-35, about midway between San Antonio and Austin. This is really quite incredible. Soon, perhaps very soon, the two cities will become one big metropolis. It's really quite fascinating. I saw it coming twenty years ago -- similar to the Boston - NYC - DC corridor? 

Politics: the entire stretch, at one time was solid red; now it's dark purple, and could easily be blue this next time around. 

Link to The Wall Street Journal:  

From the linked article:

KYLE, Texas—People and businesses have flooded into Kyle, Texas, since the pandemic, making it the second-fastest-growing city in the U.S. The influx is creating wealth but also contributing to a big problem: Kyle is getting hotter and running low on water.

Housing developments pop up seemingly overnight on this patch of hills and prairie between Austin and San Antonio.  

Amazon.com recently opened a 308,000-square-foot sorting center in town.  

Tesla built a megafactory nearby. 

But climate change can make living here brutal. Underground, the aquifer that Kyle relied on is shrinking. The city for three years now has had to buy water rights from nearby San Marcos to satisfy its growing population. Temperatures hit nearly 100 degrees before this summer even started, and drought conditions persist. People wear neck fans, limit outdoor time to early morning and nighttime, and keep their children inside.

San Antonio is the first major city those coming from Mexico will see coming north. For Mexicans, San Antonio is the #1 US destination for Christmas shopping, at this longitude. 

The cities: 

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