Austin is growing at ludicrous speed, again.
Sometimes a broken record is worth playing anyway. The Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area added 101,700 jobs (9.1%) in February on a year-over-year basis, according to […]
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Checking in on my hometown(s)
I’m on vacation this week visiting family in Raleigh, so I thought I would check in on what the recently released 2020 population data had […]
Read moreElon Musk is worth more than the entire Austin economy
This one is always fun. The wealthiest people in America, according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaire database (as of 10/01/2021), and how they stack […]
Read moreGolden State Debate: Are “most” people moving to Austin from California? (2019 update)
Few topics can get Austinites going like the role of migration, and particularly transplants from California, in the city’s astounding growth. It’s the problem people […]
Read moreThe Californians Are Coming, the Californians Are Coming
Receptions can be frosty in Portland, Seattle, and, increasingly, Austin, but nobody has absorbed transplants from California quite like Las Vegas and Reno. One out […]
Read moreSorry, Austin: Nashville Is the Real Music Capital
We can quibble about the “live” portion of Austin’s moniker, but when it comes to the concentration of musicians, agents, and related industry jobs, there […]
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