Boomtown: Comparing Columbus to Austin; lessons for central Ohio as the region grows

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10TV's "Boomtown" initiative shines a spotlight on Columbus' rapid growth that creates both challenges and opportunities.
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Columbus NEEDS better transit. Cota is doing NOTHING for the city and its traffic.

elleharl
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Car centric america still obsessed with the automobile

SimonHillKeepsItTrill
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Columbus is boring. Austin is one big, traffic jam. Pick your poison.

fixpacifica
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As someone who lived in Ohio briefly, Columbus is definitely NO Austin Texas! It doesn’t have the same number of large tech companies, facilities, international investment, diversity or a decent airport or skilled people relocating from places like California or the sunny all year round weather. Texas is the second largest economy in the country outside of California with other decent economic cities besides Austin like Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, outside of Columbus the rest of Ohio is in decline!

Xtraqvet
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Density and transit. I live in the Austin area and we lack so far behind in transit

CG-ryne
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Boomtown must do more segments on commuter rail and passenger public rail. I actually have the benefit of iving in Columbus Oh and Houston, Texas.

WilConquer
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Columbus is only 'booming' in the context of Ohio. It would be considered stagnant by the standards of southern boomtowns. This is all relative. It's only Ohio's complete stagnation that makes it feel as if it's 'booming.'

Matthew-ph
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Cities and towns that experience an economic boom always seem to have a severe housing shortage because they never prepared for it and that causes many people who have a job to sleep in their cars or commute many miles away from work and that causes traffic congestion!

moa
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The airport in Columbus sucks. Too much regional jet service to ORD, BWI, LGA, Charlotte and BOS. The city needs much better air service considering the major employers in CMH (Ohio State, Battelle, Nationwide, Chase, Huntington, Wendy's, White Castle and Intel). And NO direct flights to Europe. 14th largest city in the U.S.A.

JeffBrown-pbqr
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As a Austin native, this is where we fail, 10:40, we do need more public transport, not larger roads. Expand public transport now, build bus light rail (I think its call bus rapid transport), light rail but using buses on its own road, save money and be smart yall.

YBY
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24 year austinite here... does columbus have mass transit? a massive painpoint in austin is we have no rail and our city is cut in half by I35, and no beltway to allow communters or truckers to circumvent downtown. combined with some annoying zoning restrictions and some seriously obnoxious wealthy NIMBYs in key locations and it compounds for issues of growth and development: living centrally in austin became wildly cost prohibitive, so many people (especially minorities) either moved to the subburbs or out of the metro area all together. And with everyone now living on the edges of a city with no mass transit and terrible road design.. the city is in a constant state of playing catch up, but also doesnt want to spend the money needed to play catch up, but also property taxes are ballooning out of control because we use it (and other taxes and fees)to make up for a lack of state income tax. Also, ALL of our roads are under constant construction as a result of the influx of cars and trucks, and as you know, road maintenance costs is an incredible painpoint on city budgets.

TLDR: Build lots of rail and mixed used developments around rail. influx of ppl = influx of cars, influx of cars = spike in road maintance costs, spike in road maintance = lots of angry commuters stuck in cars wondering why their taxes are increasing and where its going, angry commuters = premium on housing located to circumvent commutes, premium on housing = people flee to outskirts of city, people fleeing to outskirts = more road maintance on roads not used to so many damn people = increase in taxes = angry commuters = etc

TLDR TLDR: youre fucked

YeOldeNerdcast
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The best way to remain affordable, ...no property taxes on primary residence. Tax incentives to rehab, old homes. Feng shui incorporated into new buildings. Stack and pack, no one wants, old model that eventually turns into "projects", attract crime, disincentive to entrepreneurship.

CMe
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Technology companies with offices in the Austin area include Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft, Salesforce, Tesla, SpaceX, Samsung, Informatica, SailPoint, Amazon, Apple Inc., ARM Holdings, Cisco, eBay, Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), IBM, Indeed, Intel, NXP Semiconductors, PayPal, Procore, Silicon Labs, Texas Instruments, Oracle, Visa, VMWare, and many others.Dell's worldwide headquarters are located in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin.

Xtraqvet
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Both are typical American cities. From a distance they look fantastic, but when you get up close it's a... fractal.

jandroniol
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The Columbus government better make plans for its housing authority to make sure that the homeless people who have jobs have access to affordable housing because the economic growth that is expected to come along with the influx of new employees and their employers.

moa
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No thank you...grew up in Columbus lived in Austin 25 years ago...both were so much better as medium size cities. Both have no soul now.

noname-xtz
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Columbus needs light rail in order to grow grow.

Composedblackness
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As I understand Austin, there's a lot of homeless folks around?

Brick
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Columbus is not as liberal and left leaning as Austin. Stop trying to make it so

monicawestrn
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Got family in Austin. Just spent 5 days there. Columbus is bland. Austin is becoming bland.

SL-vyue