[SeekAndFind]

PHOTO GALLERY OF THE NEXT BIGGEST BOOM TOWNS IN THE US CAN BE FOUND HERE :

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/edgl45fkm/no-1-austin-texas#content

[basil]

Actually, Austin is a very bad place to live, so don’t come here.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

While the country clearly needs growth, at this stage in my life I’m looking for peace and quiet. The county in Alabama that I have my eye on has a population of 31,000.

Just about perfect. Oh, and ROLL TIDE.

[Night Hides Not]

One factor not addressed regarding the business climate in Texas: tort reform.

We're ready to re-educate all libs coming to our great state that are looking for work. Seriously, though, families moving to TX from CA better be ready to work harder in school to catch up. I've been told that CA high-schoolers are 1-2 years behind TX high-schoolers.

And watch out when they move into our "Type A" communities. In the Metroplex, everything is taken seriously: sports, band, drill team, cheerleading, academics, everything. I've never seen anything like it.

First, they'll have to survive our summers! LOL!

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Why can’t they just post the damn list? Maybe with a little paragraph explaining why each one is in the place it is? Why write an article? Why do a clumsy photo gallery of the top 9 or whatever?

[mamelukesabre]

how is that list different from the CURRENT big boom towns?

[ecomcon]

Asinine, illegal immigrant worshipping crony capitalist hogwash. Texas and Phoenix are awesome because of their high levels of “immigrants” and “educated migrants”, yet Los Angeles, the former “boom town”, now ranked near the bottom, is there precisely because of the criteria presented as desirable in the article.

You can track the decline of Los Angeles and so. cal. as illegal immigrant population rises.

Forbes and other statists, crony capitalists, and ruling class elites on Los Angeles: “My work is done here”.

[DeFault User]

other rising Southern cities like No. 8 Charlotte, N.C., possess are a mild climate and smaller scale. Even with population growth, they do not suffer the persistent transportation bottlenecks that strangle the older growth hubs.

The author has obviously never been to Charlotte. We've got your gridlocks, your crappy schools, crime, high state income and sales taxes, incompetent politicians, slightly right of Mao newspaper and some of the worst cell service in the US (parts of Nevada may have worse).

[Texas Fossil]

Many of our top performers are not surprising. No. 1 Austin, Texas,

For a number of years the city of Round Rock, just North of Austin has been the fastest growing city in Texas. My daughter and son-in-law lived there until they moved across town to Hutto. Reason for growth: Dell Computer.

[Milton Miteybad]

Four of these "boom towns" are in Texas.

Two are in North Carolina.

One is in Tennessee.

The other is Washington, D.C., which is essentially a malignant economic parasite living at the expense of its host, the rest of the nation.

Strangely enough...none of these "boom towns" are located in California, New York, Illinois or Massachusetts.

I wonder why. ;-)

[LOC1]

Texas has four of the top 9 cities. None of the Texas border cities are in the top 9.

[Logic n' Reason]

One must be astounded and chagrinned that the following towns did not make the "boom" list!!!

Oconomowoc, WI
Ashwaubenon, WI
Menomonee Falls, WI,
and the ever-popular Winneboujou, WI

Tis a pity!!