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kalm wrote:Contrived, stand alone downtown in the middle of nowhere.
You sound a little bitter that people are making nice places to live. Not everyone can, would or should live in long established cities. But don't forget that Seattle, St Louis, Denver... every city, were all in the middle of nowhere before they were built.

Personally, I love the little "downtown" areas that have been created in the burbs. Sure beats the hell out of strip malls.
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89Hen wrote:
kalm wrote:Contrived, stand alone downtown in the middle of nowhere.
You sound a little bitter that people are making nice places to live. Not everyone can, would or should live in long established cities. But don't forget that Seattle, St Louis, Denver... every city, were all in the middle of nowhere before they were built.

Personally, I love the little "downtown" areas that have been created in the burbs. Sure beats the hell out of strip malls.
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Agreed Hen
America is getting better at "City Zoning"
Everything used to be discontiguous zoning so a car had to be used to get anywhere

We've much improved the "How to" intelligence related to building micro-metro locations
and zoning was the first thing that fixed that problem

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A lot of liberals will look at Europe until they realize emigrating to the enlightened, tolerant EU is harder than emigrating to the bigoted, xenophobic US.
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Ibanez wrote:
89Hen wrote: None of them are on the list.
Where'd you get your list? The past few weeks, local news have touted Charlotte as one of the fastest growing cities. I wouldn't picture Greenville, SC as a fast growing city...at least I haven't heard or read anything like that lately.
You'd be surprised.
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ASUG8 wrote:
Ibanez wrote: Where'd you get your list? The past few weeks, local news have touted Charlotte as one of the fastest growing cities. I wouldn't picture Greenville, SC as a fast growing city...at least I haven't heard or read anything like that lately.
You'd be surprised.
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/n ... 344009001/
I'm surprised. I looked up the census data. Quite interesting

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-r ... ounty.html
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Most useless thread (for me) ever

If there's more than 1000 people within a five mile radius of me I don't want to live there

When I retire I will never live within a corporate limit

I'll be on my porch with a six pack and a shotgun


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CID1990 wrote:Most useless thread (for me) ever

If there's more than 1000 people within a five mile radius of me I don't want to live there

When I retire I will never live within a corporate limit

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I can do that in my Texas 'burb...
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kalm wrote:
Chizzang wrote:
My guess:
20% of the bedrooms in Conroe work in Conroe

:nod:

It's a Houston suburb that has grown from 25K people to probably three times that size in the last decade

Hey: Col
I'll be in Houston this summer - you available..?
Sounds like Frisco Texas. Cookie cutter city that went from 20,000 to 120,000 in a decade. Contrived, stand alone downtown in the middle of nowhere.
Both Conroe and Frisco are booming...difference is, Frisco is real up-scale while Conroe is more blue-collar

Cleets, see PM
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Chizzang wrote:
Skjellyfetti wrote:Is Conroe, TX a city or a Houston exurb? How many of these people moving to Conroe work in Conroe? :coffee:
My guess:
20% of the bedrooms in Conroe work in Conroe

:nod:

It's a Houston suburb that has grown from 25K people to probably three times that size in the last decade

Hey: Col
I'll be in Houston this summer - you available..?
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Col Hogan wrote:
CID1990 wrote:Most useless thread (for me) ever

If there's more than 1000 people within a five mile radius of me I don't want to live there

When I retire I will never live within a corporate limit




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I can do that in my Texas 'burb...
Yes but you have people within 5 miles of you

It's people I don't like


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kalm wrote:
Col Hogan wrote:Image
I thought this was Cleets going beyond just mustache to the Magnum episode where he, Rick, and AJ were POW's in Nam and hadn't shaved in weeks.

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Col Hogan wrote:Image
He should be spayed and neutered. Don't let him reproduce.
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Ivytalk wrote: He should be spayed and neutered. Don't let him reproduce.
well, this is a side-benefit of the homosexual agenda
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CID1990 wrote:
Col Hogan wrote:
I can do that in my Texas 'burb...
Yes but you have people within 5 miles of you

It's people I don't like
Col's got a real nice pair of coffee shops in his town
One right next to Jupiter's is good but the other Cultivars is pretty damn great (actually)
lots of tattoos and nose rings too
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VictorG wrote:
kalm wrote:
I thought this was Cleets going beyond just mustache to the Magnum episode where he, Rick, and AJ were POW's in Nam and hadn't shaved in weeks.

Google Engineer!!! :nod: :nod:
https://www.google.com/search?q=enginee ... 8&oe=utf-8

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Chizzang wrote:
CID1990 wrote:
Yes but you have people within 5 miles of you

It's people I don't like
Col's got a real nice pair of coffee shops in his town
One right next to Jupiter's is good but the other Cultivars is pretty damn great (actually)
lots of tattoos and nose rings too
You missed the best...just outside town in Argyle...

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I don't think many liberals are going anywhere. But if it were to become evident that they were leaving in droves, before you got too excited, I think you should contemplate the fact that the overwhelming preponderance of the best and the brightest in the high tech world are liberals. Also recall that the overwhelming majority of the "cognitive elite" in this country voted Democrat this last time. More so than ever in the history of polling as far as I can tell.

If the liberals all leave a disproportionate proportion of the country's top brainpower leaves. It's something that has frustrated me for many years. But if you're objective about it you have to admit it's the case. For the most part the people behind the smart phones we use, the portable computers we use, the software that runs them, etc., were and are liberals. Most of our top scientists in other fields too. I'm not saying I understand why it's the case. But I think it's the case.
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JohnStOnge wrote:I don't think many liberals are going anywhere. But if it were to become evident that they were leaving in droves, before you got too excited, I think you should contemplate the fact that the overwhelming preponderance of the best and the brightest in the high tech world are liberals. Also recall that the overwhelming majority of the "cognitive elite" in this country voted Democrat this last time. More so than ever in the history of polling as far as I can tell.

If the liberals all leave a disproportionate proportion of the country's top brainpower leaves. It's something that has frustrated me for many years. But if you're objective about it you have to admit it's the case. For the most part the people behind the smart phones we use, the portable computers we use, the software that runs them, etc., were and are liberals. Most of our top scientists in other fields too. I'm not saying I understand why it's the case. But I think it's the case.
John, I think you're a case.

It's limp-wristed "conservatives" like you that explain why the American right is endangered. You won't fight for your principles -- such as they are.
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Ivytalk wrote:
JohnStOnge wrote:I don't think many liberals are going anywhere. But if it were to become evident that they were leaving in droves, before you got too excited, I think you should contemplate the fact that the overwhelming preponderance of the best and the brightest in the high tech world are liberals. Also recall that the overwhelming majority of the "cognitive elite" in this country voted Democrat this last time. More so than ever in the history of polling as far as I can tell.

If the liberals all leave a disproportionate proportion of the country's top brainpower leaves. It's something that has frustrated me for many years. But if you're objective about it you have to admit it's the case. For the most part the people behind the smart phones we use, the portable computers we use, the software that runs them, etc., were and are liberals. Most of our top scientists in other fields too. I'm not saying I understand why it's the case. But I think it's the case.
John, I think you're a case.

It's limp-wristed "conservatives" like you that explain why the American right is endangered. You won't fight for your principles -- such as they are.
You of all people should know that what I posted is the truth. If you could snap your fingers this second and all of the people you and/or I might characterize as "liberals" would disappear from the United States, the United States would lose the majority of its people who are among its brightest. And I'm thinking a substantial majority.

My guess is that if you're honest about it you'd say you think the same thing.
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JohnStOnge wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: John, I think you're a case.

It's limp-wristed "conservatives" like you that explain why the American right is endangered. You won't fight for your principles -- such as they are.
You of all people should know that what I posted is the truth. If you could snap your fingers this second and all of the people you and/or I might characterize as "liberals" would disappear from the United States, the United States would lose the majority of its people who are among its brightest. And I'm thinking a substantial majority.

My guess is that if you're honest about it you'd say you think the same thing.
John, that's just plain disingenuous. You see people like Zuckerberg and Gates and that little crip Hawking, and you think that liberals dominate the intellectual sweepstakes. Holy Jesus, conservatives can't hope to compete. Throw in the towel.

I give you Hillary Clinton. And the affirmative action king, the ace TelePrompTer reader, Barry Soetero.

I rest my case.
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JohnStOnge wrote:I don't think many liberals are going anywhere. But if it were to become evident that they were leaving in droves, before you got too excited, I think you should contemplate the fact that the overwhelming preponderance of the best and the brightest in the high tech world are liberals. Also recall that the overwhelming majority of the "cognitive elite" in this country voted Democrat this last time. More so than ever in the history of polling as far as I can tell.

If the liberals all leave a disproportionate proportion of the country's top brainpower leaves. It's something that has frustrated me for many years. But if you're objective about it you have to admit it's the case. For the most part the people behind the smart phones we use, the portable computers we use, the software that runs them, etc., were and are liberals. Most of our top scientists in other fields too. I'm not saying I understand why it's the case. But I think it's the case.
IF they're so fucking smart and enlightened, how come they display the complete inability to argue a point using logic? Instead they fall immediately to emotion and can't argue their way out of a wet paper bag.
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I say we compromise keep the scientists and engineers and send the Hollywood lefties to Mars.
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Chizzang wrote:
89Hen wrote: 1. Conroe City, Texas (Houston, The Woodlands, Sugar Land)
2. Frisco City, Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington)
3. McKinney City, Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington)
4. Greenville, S.C. (Greenville, Anderson, Maudlin)
5. Georgetown, Texas (Austin, Round Rock)
6. Bend, Ore. (Bend, Redmond)
7. Buckeye, Ariz.(Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale)
8. Bonita Springs, Fla. (Cape Coral-Fort Myers)
9. New Braunfels, Texas (San Antonio, New Braunfels)
10. Murfreesboro, Tenn. (Nashville, Davidson, Murfreesboro, Franklin)
11. Lehi, Utah (Provo- Orem)
12. Cedar Park, Texas (Austin-Round Rock)
13. Meridian, Idaho (Boise City)
14. Ankeny, Iowa (Des Moines-West Des Moines)
15. Fort Myers, Fla. (Cape Coral-Fort Myers)

Are those Cities..?
I've been to Bend Oregon many (MANY) times.. its a bump on a log
I've been to Conroe Texas :lol: it's got a post office on the main corner across from the bar
And Meridian is actually Boise (which is a great city) Literally it's Boise

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Hen you deliver baby..!!!

I was talking like
Seattle / Brooklyn NY / Portland / Austin TX
You know... Cities
Yes, those are all cities. :dunce:
You need to go look up the definition of a city. If you mean major cities, or cities over a certain population, then say so. :roll:
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Chizzang wrote:
Grizalltheway wrote:
Those are the two criteria for being considered a town in Montana. :nod:
I love where this thread is going...
It has the feel of the "White people love Portland and Seattle thread"
Where BDKJMU posted a bunch of towns that were whiter than Seattle and Portland

Like grandpappy Junction New Hampshire is whiter than Portland... You don't say
Which he proceeded to call "CITIES"

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