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[Sridhar Ayengar]

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