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[Brian Dunbar]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Brian Dunbar wrote:
>> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>> Nadine Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, and you know, Texas is just "bigger", so the growth of the city
>>>>  outwards is not so difficult. It's not going to bump into another
>>>> large city until Dallas in the north, and Austin/San Antonio to the
>>>> west/northwest.  It's less dense, but more sprawled, which causes
>>>> commute headaches, but keeps RE prices down.
>>> Yeah, I had guessed that.
>>>
>>> The limiting factor to outward growth in the New York area has not been
>>> the availability of land, because there's definitely land still
>>> available a little further out, it's been traffic making it impossible
>>> to get into the city in a reasonable amount of time.
>>
>> Land is still your problem, both for traffic and sprawl: NYC can't go
>> 'east' much further than it already is.
> 
> Sure it can.  Suffolk County is still pretty sparse.  So is Monmouth
> County, NJ.
> 
> New York City isn't nearly surrounded by ocean.
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar

I plead guilty to oversimplification.


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