tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post1203779763531952415..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: "3 reasons why so many people are moving to Texas"Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-55679857000242288442013-06-01T15:54:24.870+01:002013-06-01T15:54:24.870+01:00DBC, what we observe is that land values are incre...DBC, what we observe is that land values are incredibly skewed towards urban centres.<br /><br />In the UK (and no doubt it is little different in the USA), the farmland is worth 2% of the total, the suburban-residential is maybe 30% and the inner-urban and town centres is 68%.<br /><br />So central London is easily a quarter of the whole of the UK, and if you take the inner urban bits of the ten largest/wealthiest cities in the USA is also (probably) two-thirds of the total rental value of US land.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-11028526448588747832013-06-01T10:17:46.273+01:002013-06-01T10:17:46.273+01:00Once got into an argument on the Net about whether...Once got into an argument on the Net about whether Americans really needed LVT.This involved checking up on American house prices and land values (they used to give separate figures for land and "improvements").There were lots of low figures ,but a lot of these were totally whacked-out communities like Detroit. But Texas stood out as the exception: not only because of the effective State tax system but because it has massive IT industry (Dell is based there I think) also its own film industry and a bostin music scene with key festivals ( if memory serves there was a move to re-locate C&W there from Nashville.)<br />If the Texas State Publicity department wishes to reward me for these favourable comments I can be contacted easily: looking to move to the area near Wes Anderson's old school that Rushmore's based on .DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-66476755998330054922013-05-31T22:08:07.579+01:002013-05-31T22:08:07.579+01:00JS, I don't know whether you see population gr...JS, I don't know whether you see population growth as a good thing or as a bad thing or as evidence of either, but the facts are that the Texas population has grown by over TWO thirds in <a href="http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/tif/population.html" rel="nofollow">the last THIRTYy years</a> while the UK population has grown by ONE third in the last SIXTY. So that's twice the growth in half the time. <br /><br />TS, thanks.<br /><br />G, exactly. Always stick to actual hard facts.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-61909033438231130922013-05-31T19:25:03.582+01:002013-05-31T19:25:03.582+01:00@JimS
were you really born between 1911-21, as wo...@JimS<br /><br />were you really born between 1911-21, as would have to be the case for your comment to be true? Ie over 90 years old?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_populationGraemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-31564705039390264822013-05-31T17:37:58.797+01:002013-05-31T17:37:58.797+01:00So why has the UK population increased by 50% in m...So why has the UK population increased by 50% in my lifetime?<br /><br />Probably cheap housing and low taxes I expect.JimShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295953179246578687noreply@blogger.com