Re: Considering relocating to Austin/San Antonio, TX - looking for

Chuck Stevens wrote:

>"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>Austin's infrastructure hasn't kept up with the population (it has about
>quadrupled in size over the same period that San Antonio has about doubled)
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>Austin is the home of the University of Texas at Austin, with near 40,000
>students, and at least in part because of that influence it has a thriving
>artistic and academic community.
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The enrollment statistics for 2005 say that the student population is
50,000.  When I was a student there, in 1963 - 1966, enrollment was
nearly 40,000.  It tended to grow about 1,000 per year.  I'm not sure
how large it got, but there has been some retrenchment.

Austin then had about 200,000 population, and UT (it wasn't necessary to
qualify with "at Austin"; in fact, we just called it modestly, "The
University") was just the largest of multiple college and university
campuses in town, such as Concordia, Southwestern, St. Edwards, and
more.  I believe the total student population was probably about 50,000,
so students swelled the population by about 25%.  I'm sure that student
/ college influence was greater then than it is today.