Which Small City Will Be the Fastest Growing in the South? (state, Atlanta)

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by nycricanpapi

I would say none, but for the sake of the poll I would say Savanah

I just want to highlight this post for our friend eek. This is why people seem to make unwarranted attacks on nyc posters and their posts.

Huntsville is my guess. I had a friend who grew up there with NASA eggheads and it seems like the city is doing well for itself.

[SouthernBoy205]

Huntsville has a 7.9% unemployment rate compared to Greenville's 10+%.

[cdw1084]

Huntsville

[hiknapster]

Chattanooga, TN. Beautiful city. Has two aquariums on the waterfront and a fabulous art museum that sits on a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. Art district. Electric trolleys. Children's museum. DUCK tours. Longest pedestrian bridge that leads over to a beautiful park with a carousel.

So we established that it is beautiful.

Now, they are building the VW plant just north of there.

Watch. Chattanooga is going to take off.

[tablemtn]

Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson is already considered a single metro area CSA by the Census, with a population estimated at 1,222,000 or so. In fairness a bit of a stretch to consider those three cities to be a single metro area, but Greenville isn't really a "small city" in the sense of some of the other ones.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg

Huntsville has a 7.9% unemployment rate compared to Greenville's 10+%.

And Atlanta's and Charlotte's unemployment rates are even higher. Your point?

[terrence81]

I say Huntsville. They've got the military expanding there and there's the defense contractor. I was reading how a lady in Huntsville bid $63K on ebay for dinner with Sarah Palin plus the expense of flying her whole family to Alaska. She's got that kinda money in a recession? Huntsville must doing something right. Also she owns a defense contracting firm so I'm sure that helps.

[terrence81]

Savannah is very pretty but I'm not sure about how the economy is doing there. Pretty can only bring in so much money. Tourists attractions and hotels rarely pay well.

Yes Atlanta and Charlotte have been hit really hard. Both are great cities but times are tough down there. Atlanta with the housing bust and Charlotte being a banking center Wachovia and Bank of America laid off a LOT of Charlotte folk.

Thank God I have a good job. Speaking of which I better get back to work.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by terrence81

Savannah is very pretty but I'm not sure about how the economy is doing there. Pretty can only bring in so much money. Tourists attractions and hotels rarely pay well.

Don't forget about the port. It's one of the busiest on the East Coast.


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[CTownNative]

I think Huntsville was the fastest growing out of the 4 cities before the economy got bad, so I'd pick it.