Has The Sunbelt Region Already Failed?
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2023
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Thank you for watching my video on the American Sunbelt region, if there is a video you would like to see covered in the future please let me know here.
Something nf different filmed southwest cannot films dn why be part of sunbelt not necessarily ok it’s ok that it’s warm it gets some snow not a lot and it feels nice for California it feels more nice breeze and the ocean then some parts do southern USA it’s swampy it’s hot not sure much cold down there it’s a lot of different things for jackson lot of homes are abandoned and gone not sure maybe dirty not to judge places
Atlanta versus Charlotte Dallas versus Houston Phoenix versus Denver Los Angeles versus San Francisco Jacksonville versus Tampa Atlanta versus Miami
Please stop saying "rust belt". It's an offensive, derogatory, lazy and obsolete term for the 10's of millions of us who live in the industrial Midwest and Great Lakes region. Decades later I still see this term used by reporters who are not from the region or god forbid lived through the devastating 1980's job losses. We have the most precious commodity on the planet: the worlds largest concentration of fresh water - coupled with abundant rich farmland we use to feed the world.
Boooo
Terraformation! Mark my word
The issue with "sunbelt" being used is that it combines together regions that aren't actually economically, politically or geographically tied outside of being south of a particular line.
The SW and the SE have an entire different set of challenges/advantages. The SE does not, by in large, have water resource problems, and even in the event of flooding, there's no region of the US more used to engineering around flooding.
Austin, is also a strange choice as a representative for all of Texas. It lacks the geographic advantages that San Antonio, Houston, DFW, and McAllen/Brownsville have and has a poorly laid out road system. Similarly in Florida, Miami isn't very representative, when you have Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Pensacola that aren't experiencing the economic crunch of Miami and are still very affordable by urban standards. Lastly, average housing costs in Miami are very high, but much of this is driven up by that Miami and the surrounding areas have some of the most valuable properties in the nation, but almost all this of property is on the water. Go inland and the price of real estate and rents drop rapidly. Affordable housing is still available and unlike in the SF bay area, it's relatively easy for blue collar families to afford homes a commuting distance away from the Miami downtown core.
3/4 of this video was about the challenges of the Southwest, not the Southeast, and that is telling. The Southeast has challenges for sure, but they are nothing as difficult to deal with as the Southwest.
The video was narrated by a college-educated youth that didn't know what he was talking about. The info is like "I heard about this, and I heard about that" kind of thing.
just killed this guys whole video in one comment
verbose muppets
Southeast has one big problem called the KKK/GOP
It's why they are running out of young people, doctors and women
Yeah, I’m halfway through the video and not once he mentioned the Southeast especially Atlanta besides saying Alabama and Mississippi is affordable before moving on to California’s and Miami’s problems.
An area so large can easily be construed any way you want. Is it cheap? Yes. Is it expensive? Yes. Just depends what city you analyze. No one who choses to move to a certain city analyzes the whole sun belt, they analyze that city and its surrounding communities.
Considering San Francisco apart of the sunbelt is quite the stretch.
Not SF itself but other parts of the Bay Area (San Jose, for example) and especially the Central Valley are.
a part is 2 words the SF bay area is a huge economic driver . No snow as well.
@@shaynewhite1 Is San Jose really in the Sun Belt, though?
While no DOT for Los Angeles and the counties ???!!
This map makes no sense. Why is there a dot for Laredo TX (or some random town near the border?) and not Dallas?
I think that warm weather will always be attractive. While not universal, most humans would rather be too hot versus too cold.
That provides a good reason why we have 4 seasons in a year.
@@Religious_man clearly don't understand the term "sunbelt"
In my eyes, sunbelt and subtropical are the same. This is where the climate usually has cool temperatures throughout the winter, starts getting toasty during the spring, and gets hot before summer's arrival. It stays hot until sometime before winter. "Sunbelt" is really a stupid term, because many areas in North America receives much sunlight but don't receive much heat. What does man know? Useless man only thinks he knows. God bless you, @Greatest_ever.
@@Religious_man hardly 4 seasons then? God bless and Marry Christmas
Correct, hardly 4 seasons in that region. Also applies to the Arctic Circle, but the climate conditions up there are quite the opposite.
I left the sunbelt because I realized I can always put on another sweater or blanket if I'm cold. I can't take my skin off if I'm too hot. 😂
you get it
I left the midwest because no matter how many sweaters I put on, negate 50 windchill in Wisconsin is still too cold. Georgia seems to have the perfect climate for me.
which is wonderful for you. for me, I live in the desert so I am used to extreme heat, though dry, and would probably prefer someplace like the Pacific Northwest@@seanevans3187
'taint no sin / to take off your skin / and dance around in your bones -- William S. Bouroughs
this why Southerners built pools and lakes
Think how affordable housing would be if we didn’t have so many airBNBs
That barely does anything. It is not easy to expand housing supply.
@@Cyrus992 Nevertheless, one very significant factor it that hedge funds bought 42% of the houses sold last year. And then there were Private Equity Groups. And then just plain old High Net Worth individuals. And many of those properties were converted to Airbnb's. And the remaining properties available for regular people were relatively miniscule; the supply greatly undermet demand, and prices sky-rocketed. Comnine that with the fact that wealthy people throw their money and power around to prevent affordable housing from being funded and built in their towns and cities. There. It's not all Airbnbs, but they play a role. Regulating and curbing them must definitely be a part of any solution. Without it, the solution will have limited effect.
SoCal is part of the Sunbelt, the Bay Area is not. ergo, the Golden Gate Bridge is not in the Sun Belt
My guy, Gerald Ford is from Michigan, which is the opposite of the Sun Belt.
I wonder if, because of climate change, the Great Lakes region would become a massive hub because of its moderate climate and easy water supplies.
I'd probably avoid places with the most lake-effect snow, but outside of those it could benefit quite a bit.
Yup invest in land here while its cheap... wont be forever
I've stated this in my videos.. Mid west will be the next South over the next 50 plus yearss.. Forunately not to many people are paying attention.. YET
"Moderate climate" lol
I believe the future will be bright for the Rust Belt and the Great Lakes region, I had made a previous video on "Why America Needs the Midwest" but I plan to make future videos specifically on the sub-regions in that area like the Great Lakes soon.
Texas isn't the "mid-south". That's term that people use to describe western Tennessee.
Yes. Thank you for making that point.
There was very little in this video that was truthful.
Texas is just mid. LOL
It’s not the southeast either, it is south central.
Yup, I’m in Californias Sacramento area where weather is mild. A few hour drive to sierras for snow and a few hours drive south for warmth.
However, I really want to get out California 🤷🏼
I’m in sac too. I love the area but the laws, crime, and homelessness make me want out. But every place I look makes me miss this place. I’m inclined to take the bad with the good
California has the weather and some real opportunity, but the expense and the problematic regulation along with over-population (and a declining tax base) make it very difficult.
@@CoryFugger Every state sucks in some major way. At this point you just chose the place you hate the least and make peace with it.
Living in MN and TX taught me not having torturous weather half the year is valuable. Jesus Cali is perfect. I live in Houston on boat and leave hatch open half the year and just need mild heat 2 months. Now we beat malaria and AC expect no one to live north of Mason Dixon... Yes really. Or the smart will move. There's also a stubborness that makees some stay, like some abused wives, it's pathetic to stay up north. Yes really. Your kids could swim year round but some can't admit their home state sucks... Add in suburbia so kids can't be walk to school or friends and it's child abuse and mental torture of young to live in suburban north. Most mass shooters are from NORTH that's what northern living brings. Yes really ... Haha . Or am I kidding?
Honestly, it is just like the lyrics in the Eagles song "The Last Resort". "Call some place paradise and kiss it good bye." Any place that becomes a place of growth is already on the path to becoming unlivable. It has happened time and time again. Urban planning in the U.S. is all done wrong - it is based on large sprawling suburban areas with lots of highways, 4 lane roads, power networks, extensive sewage systems, etc. We don't concentrate and manage the growth of our cities well enough to be able to afford the maintenance costs that invariably start dragging down the economy and become a huge tax burden. We should learn from some of the European cities that have managed to thrive and survive for hundreds of years.
Arthur Erickson in his early sixties definitive speech stated the BC's lower mainland and Vancouver did NOT want to emulate the American experience with urban sprawl. What helped was so many architects came from Europe (and Asia) where development room is at a premium, or something you can't move, like a river or old castle, is in the way! Americans have always had all the spread, and it invites a freedom fry way to do development.
The dots representing the cities are off 0:25. Whoever made the map, placed the dot on the wrong cities: Asheville NC instead of Charlotte. Macon GA instead of Atlanta. West Palm Beach instead of Miami. El Campo TX instead of Houston. Austin TX instead of Dallas, San Antonio TX instead of Austin, Eagle Pass TX instead of San Antonio. Tucson AZ instead of Phoenix. Temecula CA instead of Los Angeles, Santa Maria CA instead of San Francisco.... Other than that, good video!
The whole video was off.
Yes! I’m from Texas and also lived in Florida and California in my youth. I saw the writing on the wall, how the rapid growth combined with the heat was going to be a bad mix for the Sunbelt.
I moved up to the mid Atlantic region and it was a GREAT decision. Less heat, less traffic, less extreme weather.
Yeah it's so much more than just "growing pains" at this point, it's deep struggle under the weight of success that's deeply dependent on constant growth.
Where in the mid Atlantic? Pennsylvania?
Where did you move to in the mid Atlantic that doesn't have bad traffic?
Moved to Texas from the midwest over a year ago and in my opinion I think it's unsustainable also! It's a no for me, I'll be getting out soon.😅
As if the same isn't happening to Virginia and North Carolina
President Ford was born in Omaha and grew up in Grand Rapids.
Popularity of the Sun Belt is already peaking. The Sun Belt just isn’t what many people think. More natural disasters, higher crime rates, and lower-quality of living. From my observation, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest are more popular choices than most Sun Belt states. Idaho, Washington state, Utah, Montana, and Colorado are still booming. In-migration to Wyoming and Oregon fluctuates. Interesting too because Washington, Oregon, and Colorado are actually less affordable than most Sun belt states. People aren’t just looking at cost of living, but they’re also looking for better quality of life. If you have to pay high rents and taxes, might as well pay for better and safer places! I live in Montana, and I will admit it’s expensive to live here, but I acknowledge that I’m paying to live in a safe neighborhood where there are access to outdoor recreations all year round. Can’t beat that!
Interesting but not up-to-date. Emigration to Portland Oregon?
Portland's been losing population for several years (municipal breakdown), and Seattle is trending the same way (living costs).
Also, the second fastest growing area in US is Raleigh-Durham NC, and it is above the line drawn.
Texas actually lost 500,000 who moved out, but because people moving IN numbered 800,000, it is still net growth, but with relatively high-income people who could easily move back out.
Two of the worst shrinking states in US are listed in the marked region, Louisiana and Mississippi, so the map is an oversimplification. Not to mention ARKANSAS is almost as bad.
Title is "Why the Sunbelt Will Fail", then proceeds to tell us that the area is projected to account for 88% of America's growth.
Failed video.
Especially since the video somehow includes the Bay Area in the Sunbelt...
Could be simply attributed that not enough water in the region to sustain continued growth
@@poopshoes7579shoes, there is plenty of water in the Old South, except for western Texas.
@@earlysdathere isn't any in the west. And the east will continue to be subject to increasing temperatures with the humidity making things worse ultimately leading to wet bulb temperatures that will kill even more people. Likewise, natural hazards will intensify leading to flooding in river valleys and huge property damage on the coasts. The insurance system is on the edge of collapse in Florida
@@feihceht656 fei, many, many more people die of cold every year than heat.
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Moderately higher heat will mean much more area of the world, like the northern part of North America and Russia, will be able to grow more crops.
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Worldwide, there are no trends in Hurricane frequency or intensity increasing.
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Please find truthful information, like at Watts Up, and Global Warming Policy Foundation, in order to learn about the world today.
Good video. It’s going to balance out. I am from the Midwest and moved to the sunbelt a few years ago. The water issue will get sorted out and not all of the sunbelt is ghastly hot. That said, the north will become more and more attractive because of water, lower cost of living and better planning.
I think it's more likely we see a west-east transfer. The SE US still gets assloads of rain and that isn't going to change unless the Gulf dries up and disappears and stops dumping hot humid air over the land. GA/SC/NC will be the beneficiaries (AL, AK, MS, LS are lost causes and will get hit harder with climate change anyway)
Did this video end awkwardly? Talks about microchip manufacturing and then fade to black.
I try to avoid those long endings asking for stuff, I just appreciate the community watching my videos (that's what matters to me)
Yeah it did. I was still waiting for him to tell us why it will fail.
I’m confused by your maps. Why are Austin, San Antonio, and Houston listed as important urban cores but not Dallas? Why is Oklahoma not in the sun belt?
I'm pretty sure he didn't use a real map for reference.
I think he saw the Texas triangle and just put random dots there.
He puts two dots in CA, LA and... Santa Barbara? SLO? I think he meant to include SF since he talks about SV a lot but SF nor San Jose are included in the red.
Then there's a random dot in NC that's like too far to be Charlotte and same in Arizona with Phoenix.
He really needs to take another look at that map
Dallas knows what it did...
Until they run out of drinking water
The urban planning style means too much infrastructure per person to maintain
Continuously shows a map with borders of the Sun Belt noticeably south of the Bay Area, then includes The Golden Gate Bridge as a landmark.
I'm even surprised that he would consider the Bay Area the sunbelt. I've never heard that before.
and then limits to growth came home like a freight train in the front room.
The unquestioned assumption outside the Overton window is that economic and population growth is "healthy". It is not. It is cancerous.
i live in Louisiana for the last 35 years. In the last 20 years i have seen the hurricanes explode with each year. i have already suffered property damage in 3 hurricanes in the last 15 years. Had the roof blow off the house. It is a nightmare to get a reliable company to make repairs as so many are busy. I lost so much of personal savings trying to make a claim on my home owners policy only to find out they doubled my rate for the next year! Everyone is having a hard time trying to pay for the extremely high rates in insurance. Most of the companies i dealt with in the past, just left the State for good. i imagine Florida and other gulf States are going through the say thing. With each hurricane season i go through a lot of anxiety and it is no way to live. And there is no politics involved, just my truthful account. If i had the money to move out of this State i would!
I hear a lot of people say it's "too expensive to move" but I really worry how much longer it will be more expensive to move compared to staying in southern coastal low lying areas and while eating all the repair and resupply costs, especially once insurance seems too outrageously costly to maintain and other social support systems start to fail because those that can afford to leave go and take their money with them. I suppose if the storms and floods someday wash away houses and peoples' things one too many times, simply buying a bus ticket and leaving (even with just a few suitcases of salvaged stuff) vs staying and fixing/replacing the damage/lost possession with monetary resources previously drained from prior damage will begin to look more comparable. It perhaps starts to resemble the cost-benefit analysis of pouring money into fixing an old car vs getting a loan to buy a much newer/lesser mileage car that doesn't need so much repair, at that point. But I don't like to think how much worse it will have to get for that to become the case.
The 10 years average for hurricanes in the US has been near constant over the last century for any 10 year period.
@@AlohaChipsa lot of South Carolinas growth is in the Midlands and upstate. The i-85 corridor from ATL to Charlotte is piedmont. Don't get me wrong flooding is still an issue along the coast but not all these areas are no more susceptible to flooding than other areas
@@luddite4change449 So I take that means there's not more of them hitting/occurring than usual? That's good. What about the average intensity of the storms that hit, is that also the same on average as in the past? (Unfortunate that with sea level rise happening, none of that really matters for the lowest of the low areas, as is the case with certain areas of Louisiana, the state where OP lives. Flooding will happen more in these places with or without storms as long as there's sea level rise.)
@@AlohaChips The National Hurican Center center records show a marked consistency in number and severity over 10 year periods.
What certainly has changed, is that there are more people and structures in places where there were fewer before. That has an impact on (especially along the Gulf Coast) on land subsidence and less fresh water and sediment going into the ocean which then results in no rebuilding of the beaches.
I was baffled when I learned that they would build a massive Phoenix microchip plant for $52.7bn for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest chip maker in the world. I thought it was insane to build it there due to the vast amount of water needed. After all, Phoenix is a desert, and the Colorado River has been dwindling over the years.
Phx water supply is doing actually ok
The increasing cost of living is what comes to mind first. Everything is getting expensive out here
The South is only cheaper temporary cause the more people move there the more housing costs will be since there's higher demand.
Water will increase in cost in Texas and it will be rationed. Public utilities are buying water rights from rural areas. The water will be sufficient, but the infrastructure will be expensive. In the past the city of San Antonio pumped most of its water from wells under the city.
It will be expensive, but I doubt it will be sufficient, or that Texas will succeed in rationing it successfully. They can't even keep their power grid functioning in a snowstorm.
Phoenix predicted to hit 100 degrees F on half the days in a year by 2070. This year they did 31 straight hitting 110F.
During a 100 F day, I ask myself if I would rather be freezing to death while shoveling snow----Hell NO!
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Phoenix has always been hot. It’s in a desert.
@@robscoggins There's hot and there's life-endangering, scorched-out hot. Phoenix is at risk for the latter, as are other places around the world.
@@elultimo102hell yeah, it is way easier
Great Lakes water to stay in the Great Lakes. Period.
Well the whole country will need water as climate change intensifies, you won't end up with a choice
I’m originally from Connecticut. I love Connecticut. But I moved to Texas in 1986 and I never regretted that move.
how can the number of billion dollar disasters in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Alabama (170 + 108 + 119 + 81) exceed the total number of billion dollar disasters (373)?
This video should be renamed to “Why the SW is doomed” and not the Sunbelt since you spent 80% talking about California. Rest was about Miami and a brief mention or two about the mid South and Southeast. You can’t really generalize the whole Sunbelt together since the challenges that the Southeast face is much different than that of the Southwest. California has a whole myriad set of challenges that the Southeast doesn’t face.
Exactly. High costs - housing being at the top of the list. Have to wonder, maybe it will collapse eventually as millions leave, to be replaced by those on the dole.
Ronald Reagan was born and grew up in Illinois.
this video is two parts hyperbole, one part misleading information
The amount people I’ve met from Oregon Utah and Colorado here in Ohio is getting annoying because I like living in a cheap part of the state
Lmao, come here to indiana, all the bad drivers on I-65 and I-465 have Illinois license plates from chicago, we are being flooded by chicagoans, so much that we had to expand 2 lanes each side into 3 lanes for like 40 miles in 2018
@@aimxdy8680 I’m okay on that lol I hate highways so I’m okay where I’m at. Thanks for the offer
I could see Ohio growing significantly over the next couple of decades.
@aimxdy8680 Traveling down I-65 especially on a Friday you would swear you were in Illinois! You'll see more Illinois plates than Indiana.
@@SomethingDifferentFilms hopefully the gov doesn’t continue disregarding the people
Large metro areas in the north east have property prices so low minimum wage workers can afford them. Good example: Syracuse NY.
What are you a real estate agent? There aren't many jobs in those areas of upstate NY. Look at Kingston, Utica, Rome
Does New Hampshire or Maine have houses that low minimum wage workers can afford? Not referring to trailers that is
@@devincampbell5007no I live in the southern part of the state and so many people are trying to move to southern nh right now it’s a crisis that’s why I’m moving to South Carolina
Syracuse is a crime ridden shit hole that’s why it’s cheap nobody that has a college education and makes money is moving to northern NY same goes for buffalo and Rochester
@@georgeleavitt4487 I believed that would be the answer! But if I’m going to remain in the sunbelt or move to the south if I become independent then the only places I’ll accept to live in are central and western North Carolina
I currently live in Tucson Arizona, and the places I want to live in are
1. New Hampshire
2. Maine
3. Idaho
4. Colorado
5. West North Carolina
6. Central North Carolina
7. Vermont
8. East Cincinnati Ohio (such as Columbia-Tusculum)
Maybe Massachusetts
Interesting take on the Sunbelt's challenges. Sparks a lot of thought about where it's headed. Definitely worth watching for insight!
I wonder if why if it has to do with the majority of those states driving down their citizens, cutting basic services, and abusing workers and the poor
Not enough water to support the population growth
May the rusty northeastern Midwest shake off the oppression of horrible weather, terrifying politics and cultural decline. No for realz tho. I hope it happens. Cuz it's the geographic future of this country.
Of course, there is the overriding reality that "people have to live somewhere", immediately followed by "people have to work somewhere", and hence the coalescing of population in cities, and of corporations planning growth (or just moving to) in places that they think folks would like to (or at least tolerate) move to. Until rather recently, the Sun Belt outside of SoFla or SoCal (both of which are basically frost-free, at least in the urban areas) had the combination of fairly rare frosts/snow (even Memphis only gets snow maybe 3 times a year) and cheap housing around urban areas, and with the momentum of the job growth, it was a no-brainer to move there. But now, with very large metros such that the cheapest, fringe development is farther away, and in any case, rather expensive, it no longer makes sense. I forsee cheap old metros with lots of available housing that could be ready to go with renovation being the place of growth (e.g., Cleveland, Buffalo, St. Louis, Detroit), as folks question why they should pay an extra $30K per year to live in soulless new metro.
Gary, IN should be on that list - less than an hour from Chicago, right on Lake Michigan with huge rail and shipping links to rest of the world, and real estate that they're practically giving away. When the South becomes an unlivable nightmare due to climate change, Gary and Detroit will come roaring back.
The sunbelt is not failing at the current time.
This is a HUGE topic for a video since like it says, the Sun Belt is barely a region at all. Climate change definitely plays a part in some of the challenges, but the weather here has sucked before that became a huge issue. It's just that there weren't enough people living down here for the rest of the country to notice. And on another note, I wonder why Nashville gets left out of the Sunbelt metro areas so often when the 36'th parallel literally runs through the southern part of the city.
Memphis is the only "major" TN city considered to be a true Sunbelt city, Nashville is in the South, but like you were saying only portions of it are within the Sunbelt area.
Nashville was left out because there was very little truthfulness in this sloppily-made video.
That is weird... especially since this video incorrectly includes the Bay Area in the Sun Belt...
@@SomethingDifferentFilms The video includes the Bay Area in the Sun Belt, so...
I wonder if ABQ will see a growth spurt in the next 5-15 years. Netflix has a large operation there and there’s a university and easy-ish access to other metros. I’ve been half a dozen times and while I wouldn’t move there right now, in a few years, it could be kinda nice
On the whole Albuquerque has alot to offer economically and culturally, but the crime is fairly high and the cost is higher than it probably should be. I prefer Santa Fe, but it's smaller so less opportunity and fewer amenities of course.
While population growth hasn't exploded like some other cities such as Atlanta, it's been steadily growing in the Albuquerque metropolitan area. It's added over 200,000 people since 2000, and is on pace to surpass 1 million people by the end of the decade.
@@SomethingDifferentFilms Santa Fe's way too expensive.
ABQ always had potential, but never risen to it, but now that Phoenix weather is worsening with climate change, maybe people might consider ABQ as an option due to being a high altitude desert city with a colder weather than Phoenix, but still sunny.
@@schris3fuck that winters are cold enough as it is in Phoenix and feel colder every year
This video is so incredibly sloppy. Did you hear the “shoot” from the voiceover that he left in? And why did he feel the need to include the Wikipedia definition of a region?
Can someone please provide a citation for the 81% of net income on housing fact. I’m struggling to find it.
Kurtis, there were very few facts in this strange video.
Google the website 'The Capitolist'. It's a four month old article. I found it after searching for 'Miami 81% housing cost'.
I suspect that the Sunbelt as a region will begin to look more like Sun Spots. A Texas
Many great universities in the Midwest and north east too especially in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Michigan as well. California universities are over ranked. Just look at the ongoing California admissions scandals
College is obsolete. AI will finish off what’s left in a few years.
@@neox9369 AI is doing a good job sizing them down
If you are going to haphazardly place dots on maps, you should probably label them so we know which cities you are trying to highlight. They appeared so off I could not tell which cities you were trying to highlight.
Why is Macon GA. shown instead of Atlanta?
Because the presentation is sloppy. Why is the Sunbelt curvy instead of a straight line across the South? This dude is $hit.
Wake Forest makes the list, but not UCLA or USC 😂
And left out Vanderbilt and doesn't include Nashville in the Sun Belt.
I live in SC. It seriously is so amazing to see how much my area keeps growing. But its also terrible as the infrastructure cant keep up. Things are getting too expensive versus what we locals actually make. Its very cheap to all the people moving here.
I guess if people werent moving here we would probably be declining. But its just a lot.
I can just tell this entire area will be growing for a while more before it probably goes bust. The traffic will be too much and the cost will be too much. And then everyone will move on to whatever booming area is next. Leaving a husk behind.
I can just see how unsustainable everything is here.
I cant imagine leaving the sun belt though because further north is so expensive and the weather seems so bad. Winters in SC are truly miserable already even without snow.
I dont think the state politicians or even all these new voters with different political views will actually help the state become stronger.
I worry about how sustainable everything is with climate change. I personally havent noticed much weather changes. Except last year it was cold nearly all the way towards summer. But all these new buildings are all deosgned for Ac and just poorly deisgn to have any natural ways to cool stuff off. I just wish it was all a bit less tech and more non electrical stuff to naturally cool buildings and such down.
The sprawl is such a huge issue. Public transportation isnt a option. You would need to carpet bomb the entire area and rebuild it for it to be walkable. People are so lazy they probably would scoff at walking to a bus or train. Also frankly they would be sketchy and unsafe for many many people. The area will be stuck in sprawl for a long time.
Exactly we have the same problem with excessive sprawl in NC but hopefully there will be a resurgence of rail and new developments can be built walking distance from potential new commuter rail stations
Why do y’all write long paragraphs dissertation 😂😂
the average person is not going to read all that.
Keep it short.
Keep it simple
get to the point.
@@javionriley8739 If you cannot comprehend a long form of conversation that's on you buddy. You need to say some big sentences from time to time. You won't get far in life embracing the Tik Tok brain rot.
It is SC where the fuck do you need to go? Housing is so cheap I bought a big beautiful home in the woods and my own home cinema and fiber internet. Plenty of cheap delivery options. I work from home and basically only use my car to visit my friends 2014 Chevy cruise only has 38,000 miles.
It's not unsustainable. What's happening in the South has been happening in Florida for almost a century.
Great Video!!! It will be interesting to see how the future of the Sun Belt comes out over the next few decades.
Thank you so much, honestly I believe it's going to be very different from area to area within the Sunbelt region. Florida, Arizona, and California probably face the most complicated and difficult futures (followed by Nevada and Texas). I would love to see places like Mississippi finally work on modernizing and improving for their residents. Utah and North Carolina are doing very well with growth and New Mexico is probably worth keeping an eye on.
@@SomethingDifferentFilmsyea I feel like out of all of them due to geography NC will probably do a little better. Since it’s not so arid like Arizona or Texas. New Mexico though has issues like crime, lack of jobs and bad schools that make it unattractive to people looking to move.
Did you really put a marker on Macon, GA and compare it's housing prices to Miami and LA?
The future growth in the Sun Belt is inter-urban. In Florida, it's currently in Jacksonville / St. Augustine, Ocala, Daytona, Gainesville --- places in between the huge metro areas of Miami, Tampa/St. Pete, and Orlando. There is plenty of room for that to continue. also, the coastal areas of the Carolinas and Gulf Coast Mississippi, and maybe part of non-metro Texas have room to grow. All of Tennessee and all of North Carolina should be on the Sun Belt map.
Born in San Diego, lived most of my life in VA and GA - recently moved north to a small town on the St. Lawrence river. Climate change had some influence on the choice but what I was moving away from were present day issues: it's too hot, too crowded and too expensive to live down there. Bought a rundown place for under 50k - not GREAT but livable and I could afford it!
Your light-rail comment showed BART which is a heavy-rail system.
Florida gives it a bad name. Awful state now.
Where ever you got this map.. 0:01
Who ever made it (you?) SURE DID make Nap/Town the most prominent metro in the nation ..
but ANNNYWHOO ..just found at odd/strange
I don't make maps, I love maps, but most creators get their source maps from a company called Map Tiler
I left Phoenix and I don’t regret my decision. It’s too hot and the water crisis will only get worse.
For the Southwest, it always comes back to water resources. A discussion of the existing resources and projections for the future would be interesting. I have been expecting a call to arms for decades now. Yet, the state continues to flush water down the drain gleefully.
At least they have Jeezus
I like living in Arizona. In the Phoenix area, the weather is warm, with daily highs of 70° F of higher this time of year. I can go swimming in outdoor pools throughout the winter. The summer is very hot, but it is only about an hour and a half drive to mountainous areas where the weather is cooler. The surrounding scenery is spectacular and there are many outdoor activities to do. Arizona doesn't get natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, or tornadoes.
I can never live in the flat and boring Midwest which lacks mountains or much expansive scenery, and the weather is too cold in winter and the summer climate is less desirable with heat combined with high humidity, plus the risk of being a victim of tornado disasters.
Your ranting makes you look like a noob when it comes to North America living. "I'M a CaNaDiAn. We DoN't GeT tOrNaDoEs HeRe. Har har har."
As someone from the PNW who's family is largely from Ohio it is funny what passes as a "Mountain" in the Midwest lol. I do like seeing the hardwood forests there, just for the change if nothing else.
You ain’t built for the Midwest
Is that you, Wrestle with Andy?
Florida sure as hell isn't. We've got new people coming here every day from those failed states like New York and California. We also recently had a surge from the smaller New England states.
Gerald Ford wasn’t from the sunbelt
@0:29, the white dots are not very close to cities - who is responsible for that graphic? The dot in Georgia is south of Macon, and I don't know where the dots in California and Texas are. The dot in central Texas appears to be Killeen.
your wrong sunbelt if the only affordable place left with 1A and 2A
The water issue in the SW is highly exaggerated. I mean, if state governments do nothing and politicians still peddle alfalfa growing in the desert (AZ) or pistachio farming in dunes (CA), or having your green lawn in your front yard; yes, it will be a serious issue. However, I trust voters will realize and demand politicians for boundaries on the powerful Ag and developers lobbies to allow cities and farms to coexist in such a delicate environment.
Ha 😂. Nah I don't think so. They're going to run out of water and crap will hit the fan.
Arizona is cracking down on foreign owned farms in the desert.
Most every prediction of the future has been wrong because people making the predictions don't account for change. They assume that singular issues will change, but not every other data point surrounding it.
What do I mean by this?
Let's take the water scarcity issues so commonly cited. It is a fact that with population growth more water will be needed, and it's in short supply in the southwest in particular. So, does this spell doomsday? If all things stayed stagnant, sure. But there are plenty of massive population dense areas of the planet in "water-scare" regions of the world, and they haven't collapsed. Take Israel for example. It invested heavily in ocean water desalination to solve the water scarcity issue.
So what's my point? Humans solve problems, it's what we do. As problems arise, problems will be solved, some won't be, but many that are necessary for life to go on, will be.
Don't listen to doomsday peddlers. They often only present one data point in a vacuum to make it seem like it's the only thing that's relevant.
@@BManStan1991 Sure - just look at Saudi Arabia. A population of nearly 36 million living in an arid area that can support only a fraction of that number naturally uses 1% of the world's oil supply to desalinate water and the good news is that this oil supply will never, ever run out leaving a country with a large population of under 30 men raised in extremist Wahhabism with no food, water, or jobs.
You have a lot more trust in voters than I do, my sweet summer child...
Golden gate is in NorCal. Is that considered part of the sunbelt?
Nope. As Mark Twain said, "the coldest winter I ever spent was a Summer in San Francisco". During the summer, the rising air in hot central Valley to the east sucks in the cold air from the Pacific and creates fog and a cold mist. A 40 degree temperature difference in 20 miles is not unusual in summer.
Excellent job mentioning sprawl. Our leaders (and Americans in general) know NOTHING about the basics of financially sustainable city design-cities SUBSIDIZE the suburbs.
We literally have our priorities backwards.
Interesting word choice, calling labor/safety regulation a "plague".
Yeah, the bias here is evident.
In my opinion the majority of the sunbelt will never be as great as the rust belt once was!
It already is
@@highlymedicated2438 The small cities and towns are trash for the most part, everyone is crowding the major cities. Rust belt had great cities of all sizes, I could go on and on but I'm not!
The average income-to-cost ratio in the Sunbelt VS. Rust Belt past and present is also good proof of your statement, too. One can buy more in Detroit than in Memphis on the same income for example, and not QUITE as dangerous either (though certainly still not safe by any means).
@@UnicornDreamsPastelSkies Not sure most people would want to live in either.
The Rust Belt will never be as great as it once was unfortunately
what did you learn from this video? please coment
Don't trust Generation Z.
I live in Maine and I approve of everyone moving there.
Perhaps Texas could export all the ILLEGAL ALIENS that are flooding over the border to Maine. A couple of million plus or minus. How approving might you be of that? I'll wait.
Your map doesn’t include the San Francisco Bay Area, an enormous tech hub which you say is in the sunbelt.
It's not in the sun belt.
Do you need to make a micro processor plant
quick fix based on the graphic at 0:22 12 of 15 is correct. (not 14 of 15 based on audio) or (13 of 15 based on notation fix) the last 3 are all Idaho. fastest growing cities. Overall though interesting video! Good job!
Lower Great Lakes region cities like Columbus, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati-Dayton are doing anywhere from fine to great. That said, I'm personally seeing that folks wanting to relocate are beginning to see the light. E.g., the value of my home in the Cincinnati burbs has doubled in 18 months. The housing shortage here is among the most acute in the country.
Man wants to live in warm weather and we will make it happen.
-A great area to experiment with, and begin evolving cellulosic and lipid producing algae farms, due to key factors of advantageous climate, warmth, sunlight, along with some areas of low cost raw/undeveloped land.
I predict the Northeast and MidAtlantic especially around the Great Lakes will be ideal due to climate change and better resources and water availability. People should be moving North not South.
I agree, but the only problem there is energy availability. I wonder if part of the south's success is access to cheap gulf oil.
Just wait until the grand solar minimum rolls around. You’ll be wishing you lived in the South.
Some of us are.
Buffalo. Next
I'm considering it tbh.
JPM is not HQ’d in the sunbelt
Neither are Apple, Google, Intel, Facebook, and Stanford University...
"The home of every president from 1964 to 2000"? Make that 2008. We may wish Dubya had never happened, but ...
Gerald Ford did not call the Sunbelt home.
At 20 seconds into the video the narrator claims 14 of 15 of the fastest growing cities are in the sunbelt, yet the chart that is posted shows only 12 not 14. Three of the cities shown are in Idaho, which last time I looked was not in the sunbelt. Makes me skeptical of all the other claims as well.
I thought this video was going to be about a connected solar energy grid in the area
4:55 Based on your map Stanford isn;t in the sunbelt.
San Francisco is considered part of the sun belt??? How? Considering the fog and overcast weather?
Huh, GA, NC, and SC have all 4 seasons. The sunbelt labeling of these states is flawed in many ways.
I would like to see a video about the coming future divide between remote vs regular work.
Why would there be a divide?
@katydid2877 Well, the advantage of a remote worker is that they can move abroad and escape inflation in Western countries. They could buy property and eventually retire abroad. The regular workers will be at a disadvantage. They will increasingly see how much of a disadvantage they are at. It will form a divide between one class who can retire and one class that can never retire.
the biggest ticking time problem for the Sun belt was the complete disregard by politicians to built out more dams && water infrascture in the regions to account for the mass migrations and business movements
Dallas?
Generalizing coast to coast states below that are doing wildly different from each other is already disingenuous from jump.
I didn't though, I spent alot of time talking about how it's too large and encompasses too much area for most generalizations to make sense. So I focused on the similar issues facing much of the Sunbelt (economic, population, and environment)- while pointing out that the differences across the region are significant while giving specific examples (it's as much a video on why the Sunbelt does not make sense, as it is about the problems it faces).
@@SomethingDifferentFilms I know, sorry I didn’t word that clearer. You did dispel a lot of the generalizations.
cj, the whole video was quite disingenious. Seems like the creator doesn't know much about the South.
@@earlysda I appreciate any constructive feedback here, but I base my content on a lot of research and a little experience.
@@SomethingDifferentFilmsThank you for trying, Something, but you had many errors in this video, making me suspect all your videos.
You’ve strangely included Idaho in your listing of the fastest growing cities infographic.
Boise is/was one of the fastest growing nationwide
@@JBoy340a Are states the same thing as cities?
Most who leave CA do it for a state with lower taxes and regulations.
Insurance will cost more, but if your house costs half or less what a house in coastal CA costs, it is manageable with higher deductibles.
The 'Sunbelt' isn't a thing other than an arbitrary temperature line. If you want to slice data to push more of a massage than anything useful averaging Las Vegas with Mississippi would yield average priced housing, average rainfall and temperatures that have remained about average. You could have easily lumped an arbitrary region from the Gulf Coast to Canada. The average of that peppered with anecdotes wouldn't be useful either.
The migration trends have altered more since COVID. People aren't just moving to Nashville, or Charlotte or Atlanta or Miami. The highest percentage increases have been more to a Johnson City, or Asheville or Savannah or Tampa. That, and most of the Southeast hasn't seen any "record setting heat" other than the expected occasional record setting high or low.
Texas native NEVER hear of the SW being part of the Sunbelt
JP Morgan Chase is HQ in NYC.