Texas is popular

Houston, Austin, Dallas… For 20 years, Texas has experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Southern state has become the perfect place to settle in the United States.

Here there iseemployment, climatic risks are reduced and the standard of living is more accessible than on the coasts. Patrick Esquerré has lived in Dallas for years. The French founded the chain of bakeries and tea rooms “Madeleine”. He too sees the changes.

“There is an extraordinary thing for 10/15 years, it is that the cities are again very green. They plant trees everywhere and as soon as there is one, we respect it, we build the house around it. tree. It becomes an extremely green city and nature, it contrasts with the concrete! ”

Patrick Esquerré

to franceinfo

Medias, telecommunications, life sciences, financial technology and the environment … According to the audit firm Deloitte, around ten texas companies appear from now on from 500 companies fastest growing North America. The giant Samsung has chosen the southern state to build a chip manufacturing plant there, valued at 15 billion euros.

As for jobs, more than 56 have been created 000 just in October here, while the unemployment rate stood at 4.2%. By 2045, according to projections, nearly 7 millione jobs could see the light of day. LThe service sector will beat at the heart of this growth.

“Dallas is much more than the city where JFK was assassinated, and where the series with JR and the Ewing family was created, enthuses Patrick Esquerré. Today, it grows wonderfully with all talents, whether artistic, high tech, industries whatever they are, we have superb universities, among the most active in the United States. ”

In this state, the largest in the United States after Alaska, everything is disproportionate. The ranches first, which can cover a few thousand hectares and which require days on horseback to go around.

Between 2010 and last year, the population increased by 4 million in Texas to reach 29 million inhabitants, on an area 1.25 times more important than France.

Many of them are arriving from California, where the fires are on the rise with climate change. Others come from large cities on the American East Coast: New York, Boston or Washington, where rents have become overpriced.

Newcomers in particular favor the suburbs around Dallas, areas that are relatively untouched over there crime and teeming with accommodation of schools or restaurants in from affordable rates.

“You have Deep Ellum, an artistic, almost hippie, relaxed, relaxed neighborhood where everyone “loves everyone”, details the French.

“On the outskirts of Dallas, villages like Pleno or Richardson are exploding. Here, we get around without any problem, even though it’s terrible in Chicago or Washington, and it’s half the price of San Francisco! ”

Only problem : policies from texas abortion and trans rights are among the most regressive in the United States, and taxes are low, Lutilities are very poore quality.

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