Good, but still largely commodity based and that can turn on a dime. I don't think we'll ever be as diversified as any of the big three.
Well I don't see oil going down any time soon, unless saudi wants to flood the market with cheap oil and I don't see why they would want to do that.
I haven't read the article, but we're not talking about losing 200 engineering jobs and creating 400 fry cook positions, are we? Not tryin' to hate on fry cooks - I love ya'll.
And I was down-voted on Reddit today for suggesting to a software designer that he should relocate to Texas after he complained of being priced out of a home in the San Francisco area....
Graduated with a foreign degree in industrial engineering and would have preferred an engineering job but have lowered my standards to be more realistic about my expectations. Willing to work anything where I can stimulate my brain (no blue collar jobs) and can get trained and have a career in. Unfortunately haven't found any. I have had several interviews in the past, but I bombed those. Since then, I've practiced and gotten much better except now I'm not getting any interviews. Ugh
In some ways I follow you but Sao Paulo is bigger than New York City. You'd have to nab some other somewhat obscure but equally important city overseas, possibly an OPEC anchor since Houston is all about oil.
Houston is the best land of opportunity and forward social mobility I have found in the United States and I have lived and traveled a very wide sample.
Austin is hanging right in there with Houston, as far as job creation goes, and had a lower rate of unemployment the last time I checked. Houston, of course, is several times its size. Kudos to H-Town! I think the folks from California have targeted Austin. Their numbers are now endless!
Brought a group of my buddies down with me from SF to Austin last year for a UT football game weekend. They were blown away by the tailgating, bar scene, and food. One of them is considering relocating his startup down there.
Houston has certainly been strong but it's hard to go wrong with Texas in general from an economic standpoint...houston, dallas, Austin and San Antonio are just strong investments
Oh, it's crazy here. Home prices are shooting up, and vacancies in apartments are plummeting, as rents rise. Traffic is getting worse by the month, or so it seems. Greater Austin now has a population estimated at 1.8 million!
Crazy. That 1.8M must be from Buda to Georgetown, and all the way west to Leander. Can't imagine Mopac or 35 moving any slower than it already was.
