8 ms·

What cities will see the kind of growth Austin has experienced in the next twenty years? Perhaps Raleigh, Denver?

bonoetmalo 8y ago
Minneapolis and Asheville both have decent tech scenes although I don't know if they have the tourist capacity to encourage tech people to move there.
- microDude 8y ago
  My old boss moved to Bend, OR, but was surprised when I did not follow him. He did not give me a pay raise to afford the $400k entry house for my family. I could have lived out in the sticks, but wanted to be able to walk to downtown, like I do now.
  - bonoetmalo 8y ago
    Yeah, after living in a house for so long I absolutely could not see myself moving back into a condo/apartment again, for any job.
- timemct 8y ago
  Reporting in from Asheville: the tech scene here is incredibly small. Most of the people I know here in town that are working in any sort of tech space are remote workers. Asheville is indeed a city that's seen a lot of growth over the past 15/20 years and is often talked about in the same way as Austin; I'll often hear someone say, "when I moved here in YYYY, is was so great; I miss the old Asheville." The city officials seems dead set on promoting tourism and not supporting a tech industry. I'm still here because I love this town and want to help promote the its tech scene.
eitally 8y ago
I'm under the impression that Denver (and Boulder) already have. The Raleigh/Durham metropolis certainly is, too, because it's not just Raleigh. In fact, although Raleigh is the largest single city, the conglomerate of Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Apex, Chapel Hill, Carrboro (not to mention Knightdale, Zebulon, Garner, and Clayton to the East/South), has been thriving for a looong time. The tech presence has only been growing quickly over the past decade, but Cisco, IBM, Netapp, Microsoft, Google, Citrix, Redhat, Allscripts, and many others all have significant presence there. This doesn't include non-tech tech, like Genband, Gemalto, Cree, and more, or all the biotech/pharma there. We lived in Cary for 13 years until moving to San Jose two years ago. There are many reasons we miss it.
joelrunyon 8y ago
This has been my question lately too. I love Austin, but the recent growth spurt has me wondering how the city will support it. My bet has been on Nashville, but I think that's been exploding already as well.

Minneapolis and Asheville both have decent tech scenes although I don't know if they have the tourist capacity to encourage tech people to move there.

microDude 8y ago
My old boss moved to Bend, OR, but was surprised when I did not follow him. He did not give me a pay raise to afford the $400k entry house for my family. I could have lived out in the sticks, but wanted to be able to walk to downtown, like I do now.
- bonoetmalo 8y ago
  Yeah, after living in a house for so long I absolutely could not see myself moving back into a condo/apartment again, for any job.
timemct 8y ago
Reporting in from Asheville: the tech scene here is incredibly small. Most of the people I know here in town that are working in any sort of tech space are remote workers. Asheville is indeed a city that's seen a lot of growth over the past 15/20 years and is often talked about in the same way as Austin; I'll often hear someone say, "when I moved here in YYYY, is was so great; I miss the old Asheville." The city officials seems dead set on promoting tourism and not supporting a tech industry. I'm still here because I love this town and want to help promote the its tech scene.

eitally 8y ago

I'm under the impression that Denver (and Boulder) already have. The Raleigh/Durham metropolis certainly is, too, because it's not just Raleigh. In fact, although Raleigh is the largest single city, the conglomerate of Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Apex, Chapel Hill, Carrboro (not to mention Knightdale, Zebulon, Garner, and Clayton to the East/South), has been thriving for a looong time. The tech presence has only been growing quickly over the past decade, but Cisco, IBM, Netapp, Microsoft, Google, Citrix, Redhat, Allscripts, and many others all have significant presence there. This doesn't include non-tech tech, like Genband, Gemalto, Cree, and more, or all the biotech/pharma there. We lived in Cary for 13 years until moving to San Jose two years ago. There are many reasons we miss it.

joelrunyon 8y ago

This has been my question lately too. I love Austin, but the recent growth spurt has me wondering how the city will support it. My bet has been on Nashville, but I think that's been exploding already as well.