LinkedIn migration data

Cities with the highest relative levels of net migration based on changes in LinkedIn profiles over the last twelve months. It’s Austin by a mile, 50% higher than runner-up Charlotte. Thematically, towards the Southern/Mountain states and away from the coasts with Seattle being the sole outlier.

Meanwhile, here are the cities with the greatest relative net loss in migration over the preceding twelve months. What this tells me is that college grads tend to leave their college towns after they graduate. 

Oh great and holy LinkedIn, can you reveal to us the truth about the change in velocity of migration over the past twelve months? Just asking...

High speed train, Texas style

Texas Central Railway gets Federal approval. Cue the inevitable California-Texas comparison... Phase 1 of the California High-Speed Rail, scoped at 520 miles of tracks, is currently projected to take 2.5x the time, at 2.26x the cost/mile when compared to the Texas Central Railway. In any event, I predict the most popular bird by the banks of the Brazos will soon be the (construction) crane.

What to do with urban parking garages?

“The pandemic has left many of these parking garages mostly empty as more people work remotely. But even before the pandemic, ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft and the rise of urban bicycling infrastructure had been leading to a decline in car ownership in the city. Now, developers are targeting urban parking garages as prime sites for redevelopment.”

The number of parking garages and lots increased by a third since 2000.