Locator: 50927TEXAS.
Except state income taxes: there is no state income tax in Texas.
I honestly do not know to what extent all of the following is true / accurate. Please feel free to fact check.
Without question, the growth in this country -- that would be the USA -- is focused in Texas right now.
To follow the growth, this is a great link: CoStar. I don't subscribe (yet) so I often can't get the full story, but the headlines are enough. AI will do the rest.
Specifically today, this news story caught my attention, link here.
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From AI:
There are multiple economic / growth regions in Texas:
- north Texas -- Dallas -- Ft Worth -- DFW
- the airports
- DFW (the airport) is expanding; currently the second busiest airport in the US; the third or fourth busiest airport in the world (passenger movement)
- Dallas Love Field -- airport -- hub for Southwest Airlines
- banking -- financial center
- NASDAQ is now in Dallas
- oil
- distribution center: Amazon fulfillment; BNSF; airlines; trucking -- multiple international interstates
- northwest Texas, south of the panhandle -- the Permian
- San Antonio -- a city unto itself -- the first major city not on the border from the south / east, Mexicans see migrating north
- El Paso -- another city unto itself but doesn't get much attention-- the first major city on the west side that Mexicans see migrating north
- Austin -- "Silicon Valley Texas"
- Houston: space
- Starbase / Musk: Brownsville -- southeast tip of the state.
- Big Bend: minimal growth but that's where the UFOs are.
The economic - growth -- geopolitical center of the DFW area, right now, is north and to some extend east of Dallas, particularly Plano, McKinney, Frisco.
However, Texas DOT forecasts that the area immediately north of Ft Worth will be the the economic - growth -- geopolitical center of the DFW area by 2050. Highlights:
- Alliance airport
- Justin distribution facilities
- BNSF
- Schwab -- US headquarters
Alliance Airport (AFW):
Are the Amazon fulfillment centers in north Texas, specifically DFW, the largest such Amazon centers in the US?
Which state has the most miles of interstate highway?
Which state has the largest number of intermodal rail lines?
HEB: the only state that has HEB grocery stores is Texas. HEB does have some grocery stores in northeastern Mexico. How does HEB grocery compare with national grocery stores?
Golden triangle:
Denton is the home of the University of North Taxas. Meatloaf is a UNT alumnus. He also starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, set in Denton, TX, 1975, 50 years ago.
City? Euless -- home of the newest HEB in Texas. Opened May 20, 2026.
