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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people realize California is a sun belt state? California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina … Tennessee. They’re all booming.[/quote]

The large cities in those states are booming. Not the small towns and rural areas. [/quote]

Cite? [/quote]

NP I live in North Carolina. This is exactly what is happening here! Almost all of the growth here is in the Charlotte metro and the Raleigh metro. The only rural areas that are growing are the ones on the edges of those cities. Kind of how Gainesville, VA used to be rural and is now an exurb of DC. Otherwise, most of the rest of the state is stagnant or declining.[/quote]

Ok, that is anecdotal. A previous link on this thread shows that small towns in the south are growing, while in the midwest and northeast, small towns are shrinking.

Even your example shows that it's *suburbs* that are growing, not cities. (Which all the data supports.)  The pp is saying that *cities* are driving the growth. In fact, it is mostly suburbs, like Georgetown, TX, Murfreesboro, TN, Frisco, TX, etc. [/quote]

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