Guest Jackwood Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Houston is known for many things: Oil, NASA, urban sprawl and business-friendly policies. But the Texas city deserves to be known for something else: coolness.The Bayou City may not be the first place you associate with being hip or trendy. But Houston has something many other major cities don’t: jobs. With the local economy humming through the recession, Houston enjoyed 2.6% job growth last year and nearly 50,000 Americans flocked there in response — particularly young professionals. In fact, the median age of a Houston resident is a youthful 33. The result? Over the past decade, the dreary corporate cityscape has been quietly transforming. Stylish housing developments have popped up downtown, restaurants have taken up residence in former factories and art galleries like the Station Museumhave been inhabiting warehouses. Combine that with a strong theater scene, world-class museums and a multicultural, zoning-free mashup of a streetscape and you have the recipe for the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ list of America’s Coolest Cities To Live. http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/07/26/houston-tops-our-list-of-americas-coolest-cities-to-live/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchFan Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 It's nice to have national media give us good publicity, but did we really only have a population increase of 50K last year? Seems odd in comparison to the job growth figures of ~ 95K that I've seen elsewhere. Unless we had 45K unemployed engineers and geoscientists to fill them, which seems unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchCity Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 They are probably referring to the City of Houston, rather then the entire metropolitan area. The Houston Metro gained something like 120k residents if I am not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 you realize this is from July of last year, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 This would apply to midtown and upper kirby area I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jackwood Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Houston has only gotten cooler since July of last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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