How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah

Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by e12e on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:05PM (#23883894)

> My city in Texas is averaging a growth rate of about 22% decade over decade

Not to detract from your overall comment, but that's only just under 2% year on year growth - that's pretty low for a city? (Not trying to imply that faster growth is good, just that you've framed it as rapid growth - a big exodus - and it's.. Not ?)

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Re:How Mormons built a startup ecosystem in Utah by austincheney on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:25PM (#23884540)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

There are only 37 cities in the US greater than half a million people and only a tiny fraction of those grew by more than 20% over the last decade. The largest two of those are both in Texas and none are in California.

If a city is able to consistently grow at 2% per year it will only take 20 years and a few months to be 50% larger due to compound interest and only 35 years to double in size.

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