Texas is big.
It's the largest state in the continental United States and covers of
268,000 square miles, making up 7.4% of the nation. Texas alone is
bigger than all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois... combined. Even the DFW airport is larger than Manhattan.
Where Is Your Horse?!
While most people are aware that Texas is physically a large place many
have a false perception of the state. Contrary to popular belief, Texas
is not just an open range full of cowboys and horses. In fact much of
Texas is a budding and modern, urban metropolis. Texas is home to 24
million people, 82.5% of whom live in metropolitan areas and of the
Top 10 most populated cities in the U.S., three are in Texas: Houston,
Dallas and San Antonio! The Dallas / Forth Worth metroplex has more
residents than the entire state of Arizona AND 31 other states! If Texas
were its own country it would be the 10th largest in the world. It would
have the 12th largest economy, based on gross domestic product, ahead
of Mexico, Russia & India. It would be the 5th largest oil and gas
producing country in the world and more Fortune 500 companies call
Texas home than any other state.
It's Getting Even Bigger
As big as Texas is, believe it or not it's getting even bigger. Texas has the
largest population growth rate of any state in the US and is growing by
over 1,000 people a day. The Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex is the #1
fastest growing metro areas in the nation. In fact, the term "Metroplex"
was originally coined and is uniquely used, to describe the Dallas Fort
Worth area. It's aptly names DFW's sprawling metropolitan area that
contains several cities and their suburbs. Texas dominated the list of the
nation's fastest growing cities with San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston,
Austin and Dallas all landing in the Top 10
With this much growth in such a concentrated area
and 70% of the states population living within 200
miles of Austin, cities are expanding with continuous
urban areas blending cities together. It's much
more than a Metroplex... we call it the Texaplex!
The Texaplex got a jump start early on from the cargo
and passenger trains that originally connected the
Texaplex cities over 130 years ago. Now these cities
are connected by the major interstate's I-45, I-10
and I-35. The Texaplex includes the Dallas / Fort
Worth metroplex in the north down to the Houston
metropolitan area in the SouthEast on over to
Austin and San Antonio in the West, completing the
Texaplex.
Of the 24 million Texans four out
offive live in the Texaplex and it is
growing... fast! Forecasts show that the
Texaplex will add another 12 million people
by the year 2030.That is the equivalent of
adding to the current Texas population another
San Antonio metropolitan area, Houston
metropolitan area, Austin metropolitan area and
Dallas / Forth Worth metropolitan area and all within
the Texaplex.
1. Great Place to live
Texas is a great place to live.
The weather is good and free
from the harsh winters of
the north. There is plenty
of entertainment; Austin is
considered the live music capitol
of the world, there is tons of
great shopping, restaurants and
art museums. Texas is home to
several professional sports teams
including the Dallas Cowboys,
Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars,
Texas Rangers, Houston Astros,
Houston Texans, Houston
Rockets and San Antonio
Spurs and some of the best
Universitites and Business
Schools in the nation: UT, SMU,
TCU, A&M, Baylor & Rice.
2. Great place to work
Secondly it's a great place for business. In fact it's the best place for
business as . CNBC just named Texas the #1 state for doing business
and in the past 5 years, Texas has created 1.2 million new jobs. In
2007 half of all jobs created in the US were in Texas. There is no state
income tax, no tax on goods in transit and its central time zone makes
it ideal for working with companies on either coast and the office of
current governor Rick Perry, has ensured pro growth and pro business
legislation are at the forefront of their agenda.
For those living in Texas or on their way this is all great news. And with
national economy and home values dropping across the natrion we can all
use some good news. Texas has and will remain strong. It's a great time to
own Texas Real Estate and it's going to be a Lone Star Boom!
3. Great investment
And finally Texas has a low
cost of living. Forbes magazine
recently published an article
"Best Cities to Buy a Home"
which featured all 4 Texaplex
cities in the Top 10! Austin and
San Antonio lead Forbes' list of
"Best Bang for the buck cities"
and Houston and Dallas also
land in the Top 10! [Show typical
new home in maybe McKinney
$300,000 range.....it is 4000 sq
ft...5 bedroom,4 baths, granite,
custom ,etc. Compare to what
that would cost in other cities.
http://www.texaplex.com/Texaplex.pdf
It wouldn't have to be very tall if we electrified it would it??? Years back while I was building a co-gen in Blythe, CA we branched off a mainline for the gas supply. The mainline was run on down into mexico (for those wondering it's not a spelling error I just don't capitalize it). This gas was and still is being used to power 3 co-gens in the mexicali area. Of course none of this was ever in the media and they are still "selling" the USA the power probably. They had to observe no emission laws when these were built and there were some real bad accidents on at least one of them I know of. The company whose name rhymes with rectal collapsed a HRSG (high recovery steam generator or boiler) on one of these jobs. This is what NAFTA did for the working people in this country. 
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