Trust me Brumar, any buildable land of consequence is north of Everett, not east. Here's a map.......there is less than 25 miles between Everett and the Cascade Mts National Park and of that, most of it is foothills to the Cascades and/or built up ..... Much of it is built up........you can't tell because of all the trees that face along the freeways and roads. Its part of what makes the PNW the PNW......we are considered subtropical rain forest. When they build, they preserve as many of the trees as possible. But when you get behind the trees, there are subdivisions and suburban development. It just looks raw to the untrained eye.
Yep, there is buildable land north AND east of Everett. Which applies to all the cities along Puget sound. Have been there and seen it. More to the point, I can look at a map and see what I saw with my naked eye confirmed.
When were you here? 1980?
Back to the point, land use restrictions drive up real estate prices. For all I know much of the undeveloped land could be national forest or something but thats just another land use restriction.
Land use restrictions do drive up prices but not as much as mts and sounds and oceans do. Portland, OR has some of the most restrictive land use in the US and its housing median is way below Seattle's.
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Its not just tech.....its gov't, its the university, a healthcare network, its Whole Foods, a pizza chain et al.
Invoking Whole Foods and Gatti's pizza or the healthcare network there is getting pathetic. None of those things is unique to Austin. You can find the same things in every major TX city on a larger scale than in Austin.
There is a lot of diverse industry in Austin which buffers it during recessions. Its probably the fastest growing large [over a million people] metro area in TX.
Again, Austin's "diverse industry" isn't that unique. In fact, Austin's industry isn't that diverse.
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