Denton and Collin counties are projected to be the nation's fastest growing economies over the next five years, according to an Oxford Economics forecast.

Of the top six U.S. counties, four are in Texas:

https://interactives.dallasnews.com/char...nhSxJ.html

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/econ...five-years

Collin County has been growing tremendously since I moved to the area in 1972. It wasn't until the last 15 years or so when I lived in Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, and Richmond, VA that I truly realized that kind of growth doesn't happen everywhere. It doesn't look like it's going to slow down anytime soon.

I moved my family to McKinney, TX, the county seat of Collin County, in 1992. The population was 24,000 at the time. Today the population is 172,298. I could spend the next hour telling you guys all the changes we've seen in McKinney, but you wouldn't appreciate it anyway without actually experiencing it. Lots of change.

I remember when Frisco, TX (borders McKinney) only had a population of 3,500 people. Today it's 163,656.

So since I moved here, I've watched the COMBINED population of the two town's grow from 27,500 to today's combined population of 335,954.

(08-14-2017 03:54 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  I moved my family to McKinney, TX, the county seat of Collin County, in 1992. The population was 24,000 at the time. Today the population is 172,298. I could spend the next hour telling you guys all the changes we've seen in McKinney, but you wouldn't appreciate it anyway without actually experiencing it. Lots of change.

I had experienced something similar where Pembroke Pines, FL, had gone from 50,000 to 160,000 in the space of 10 years.

(08-14-2017 03:54 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  I moved my family to McKinney, TX, the county seat of Collin County, in 1992. The population was 24,000 at the time. Today the population is 172,298. I could spend the next hour telling you guys all the changes we've seen in McKinney, but you wouldn't appreciate it anyway without actually experiencing it. Lots of change.

And Franklin, TN, (saw that under your name) has experienced unbelievable growth as well.

Maybe folks are following you (-;

(08-14-2017 05:07 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(08-14-2017 03:54 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  I moved my family to McKinney, TX, the county seat of Collin County, in 1992. The population was 24,000 at the time. Today the population is 172,298. I could spend the next hour telling you guys all the changes we've seen in McKinney, but you wouldn't appreciate it anyway without actually experiencing it. Lots of change.

And Franklin, TN, (saw that under your name) has experienced unbelievable growth as well.

Maybe folks are following you (-;

The Nashville metro area is growing about 100 people a day with about 85 being people moving here and the other 15 is growth by birth. Nashville had the highest cost of living increase in the nation for a city year over year (the median house cost went up $34K from last year to this year). There are brand new duplexes going up that will set you back $380K for just one unit just on my block about 50 yards away from my place. Just about 4 blocks away, there is housing selling for $500K. This isn't sustainable and read that a housing bubble is forming and may pop around 2019 or 2020. Salaries aren't keeping up with the cost of housing (glad I bought a brand new place 10 years ago). Something has to give.

(08-14-2017 05:52 PM)topper1296 Wrote:  

(08-14-2017 05:07 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(08-14-2017 03:54 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  I moved my family to McKinney, TX, the county seat of Collin County, in 1992. The population was 24,000 at the time. Today the population is 172,298. I could spend the next hour telling you guys all the changes we've seen in McKinney, but you wouldn't appreciate it anyway without actually experiencing it. Lots of change.

And Franklin, TN, (saw that under your name) has experienced unbelievable growth as well.

Maybe folks are following you (-;

The Nashville metro area is growing about 100 people a day with about 85 being people moving here and the other 15 is growth by birth. Nashville had the highest cost of living increase in the nation for a city year over year (the median house cost went up $34K from last year to this year). There are brand new duplexes going up that will set you back $380K for just one unit just on my block about 50 yards away from my place. Just about 4 blocks away, there is housing selling for $500K. This isn't sustainable and read that a housing bubble is forming and may pop around 2019 or 2020. Salaries aren't keeping up with the cost of housing (glad I bought a brand new place 10 years ago). Something has to give.

You are correct. The housing market is crazy here in Franklin/Nashville. The problem here in Franklin is that it really doesn't have the infrastructure to support this kind of growth. They are building hundreds of houses here each year. Everywhere you go, it's crowded. That's because the city (and area) is grossly under built to support a population with this kind of absurd growth.

I do really like Collin County. When I graduated college it was a tough choice on where I was going to live between Plano or Houston. I'm happy I picked Houston, but those north Dallas suburbs are also a great place to build your life.

Hope y'all get a Zoe's Kitchen and maybe a Moe's or three.

(08-16-2017 10:10 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Hope y'all get a Zoe's Kitchen and maybe a Moe's or three.

Do you mean Moe's Mexican? We had those in Virginia when I lived there. They wouldn't last long here as there's too many better Mexican options.

(08-16-2017 10:20 AM)NorthTexan95 Wrote:  

(08-16-2017 10:10 AM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Hope y'all get a Zoe's Kitchen and maybe a Moe's or three.

Do you mean Moe's Mexican? We had those in Virginia when I lived there. They wouldn't last long here as there's too many better Mexican options.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Moe's isn't exactly in the same market category as a sit-down Mexican restaurant. They seem to coexist pretty well here in Atlanta at least. (And Atlanta has plenty of Mexican restaurants.)

Bowling Green has been designated as the fastest growing city in the Commonwealth. The city is up to 62k now and the county is over 120k. Small potatoes compared to many, many of the places in Texas but still the fastest in Ky over the last 5 years.

I know Murfreesboro has had tremendous growth the last decade and would probably be top 2 in Tennnessee behind Nashville. That's just a guess.

This thread is about Denton's growth. Can't top them.

I'd have to believe Boca and Miami are up there in fastest growing just like every metro area in Florida.

Charlotte seems to have exploded since I was stationed in Jacksonville so long ago. It wasn't small then but not what it is now.

Norfolk has grown tremendously since the last time I was there boarding the USS Guadalcanal. A long time ago. Not sure where they fall in the state of Va.

I find it interesting that a lot of the new configuration of CUSA is in places with healthy growth. Not that it translates into any success on the sports side but anecdotally I'd take growing entities over atrophying ones. If atrophying is a word.

(08-15-2017 10:15 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(08-14-2017 05:52 PM)topper1296 Wrote:  

(08-14-2017 05:07 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  

(08-14-2017 03:54 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  I moved my family to McKinney, TX, the county seat of Collin County, in 1992. The population was 24,000 at the time. Today the population is 172,298. I could spend the next hour telling you guys all the changes we've seen in McKinney, but you wouldn't appreciate it anyway without actually experiencing it. Lots of change.

And Franklin, TN, (saw that under your name) has experienced unbelievable growth as well.

Maybe folks are following you (-;

The Nashville metro area is growing about 100 people a day with about 85 being people moving here and the other 15 is growth by birth. Nashville had the highest cost of living increase in the nation for a city year over year (the median house cost went up $34K from last year to this year). There are brand new duplexes going up that will set you back $380K for just one unit just on my block about 50 yards away from my place. Just about 4 blocks away, there is housing selling for $500K. This isn't sustainable and read that a housing bubble is forming and may pop around 2019 or 2020. Salaries aren't keeping up with the cost of housing (glad I bought a brand new place 10 years ago). Something has to give.

You are correct. The housing market is crazy here in Franklin/Nashville. The problem here in Franklin is that it really doesn't have the infrastructure to support this kind of growth. They are building hundreds of houses here each year. Everywhere you go, it's crowded. That's because the city (and area) is grossly under built to support a population with this kind of absurd growth.

It was like that 10 years ago when I lived in the Nashville area - winding country roads with major opposition to widen them, so more and more people crammed onto them.

Murfreesboro is the same way

Too many folks for our roads. It is quicker for me to drive to Nashville than to drive across town.

By the time a road project is completed, it is already obsolete.

We have gone from 70,000 folks to 140,000 in probably 15 years. This is just within the city limits.

Our schools are bursting at the seams.