{"id":741,"date":"2011-09-16T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2011-09-16T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T16:01:04","slug":"texas-best-place-during-a-bad-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/texas-best-place-during-a-bad-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS &#8212; BEST PLACE DURING a BAD ECONOMY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>according to Tom Mullins, president\/CEO of the Tyler Economic Development Council &amp; Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 Our Smith County is one of the fastest-growing counties in East Texas, with 3,000 to 3,500 people moving here each year and Texas is growing more rapidly than any other, with an average of 1,000 new people becoming Texans every day.\u00a0 Mullins said people usually don&#8217;t move unless they have jobs or businesses in the area.\u00a0 Much growth in this area.\u00a0 Unemployment in the Tyler area is averaging 8%, higher than Mullins wants it to be.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Still below the\u00a0 state&#8217;s 8.7% andthe nations&#8217;s at 9.1%.\u00a0 Tyler is regional retail hub.\u00a0 Home sales have been down, but average price of homes has been up in the past 5 years.\u00a0 Now the number of huses being solid trending up while HOME PRICES ARE DOWN.\u00a0 People are more realistic about selling, if they need to sell.\u00a0\u00a0 Building permits are down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>according to Tom Mullins, president\/CEO of the Tyler Economic Development Council &amp; Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 Our Smith County is one of the fastest-growing counties in East Texas, with 3,000 to 3,500 people moving here each year and Texas is growing more rapidly than any other, with an average of 1,000 new people becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}