Top Ten Fastest Growing Cities (and the Winner is...)

[I-10east]

In contrast to the other thread, these are the Top Ten fastest growing cities. The winner is closer to Jax than you think!

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/real_estate/1103/gallery.Fastest_growing_metro_areas/index.html

[buckethead]

Palm Coast: What not to do... A case study.

[I-10east]

I admit, I never stopped in Palm Coast, just passed though on 95.

[I-10east]

I'm sorry to get a bit off topic, but talk about what not to do, how bout this other 'Palm' city in FL. I highly recommend dragasonis 'economic collapse' youtube vids. I found them very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4n-7tGAWSE

[floridaforester]

I admit, I never stopped in Palm Coast, just passed though on 95.

You're not missing much unless you find pleasure in feeling like the youngest person in sight.   When I was working there in my 20's it was just odd, now it might not be bad for the self-esteem. Just for fun go to the Publix.  Wow!   Remember the joke about St. Petersburg being heaven's waiting room?  Now substitute Palm Coast. 

Buckethead, you are exactly right in being the poster child for terrible growth execution.  ITT developed thousands of acres at once with the result that when the fires of 1998 came through there were neighborhoods with a few homes scattered throughout acres of palmetto & gallberry 10 feet high and ready to burn for 20 years.   Hence why so many homes could not be protected from the fires.  Had they developed slowly and in phases instead of putting infrastructure throughout the 20k acre development, the firefighters could have protected groups of homes but not with individual structures scattered across the landscape.

You could, and probably still can, drive for miles on paved roads (with weeds sprouting through the cracks) in subdivisions without a home in sight.  A depressing sight if I've ever seen one.

[I-10east]

Thanks for the info FLForester.

[Doctor_K]

I'm sorry to get a bit off topic, but talk about what not to do, how bout this other 'Palm' city in FL. I highly recommend dragasonis 'economic collapse' youtube vids. I found them very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4n-7tGAWSE

Ahh The Compound!!  Part of my old stompin' grounds back in the 3-2-1.  Palm Bay is notorious for a whole bunch of nothing everywhere anyway.  More of the same, if you ask me.

[north miami]

Come on now- don't be blind sided by percentage rate.
Basic math review:
What is the "winning" growth rate constituting more individual newcommers: 30% or 15% ??
An existing population of 100 that expands by thirty percent or an existing population of 500 that expands by fifteen percent ??

It is a given that some of the truly best places refrain from the population 'growth' race.

Just returned from a week in downtown Palm Beach and environs for the Palm Beach Boat Show.
What impresses me are the huge and ever expanding swaths of "bad","run down" areas.

[finehoe]

How is Palm Coast even a "city"?  That's like calling I-95 a boulevard like the Champs-Élysées.