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To: RockyBalboa who wrote (3421)3/27/2008 10:34:36 AM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik  Respond to of 6370
 
Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, we're still wondering what all the fuss is about...

Census: Texas is the hot place to live

news.yahoo.com

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Experts credit much of the growth in the South to relatively strong local economies and housing prices that are among the most affordable in the U.S.

"People are running away from unaffordable housing, from the economic slowdown," said Karl Eschbach, a state demographer in Texas. "I would expect Texas to stay at the top of a slowing game."

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Ann Sekesan, a pharmacy technician, moved her family from Pennsylvania to suburban Fort Worth last June after seeing spacious homes in Texas for under $200,000 on a television show.

"After we saw that on TV, my husband and I looked at each other and said, 'Have you ever been to Texas?" Sekesan said. "It's amazing the size of a home you can get down here. It's just incredible."