You will just love to read this article from today's Houston Chronicle, telling us all AGAIN, that Houston dominates America's growth corridors, and adjusted for cost of living, has a higher per-capita income over California.  Researcher Joel Kotkin argues that Houston has the highest standard of living in the United States.

Here's the original report by Joel on "America's Growth Corridors" recently released by the Manhattan Institute:  http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/cr_75.pdf

Here's today's Houston Chronicle article highlighting some of the major points pertaining to Houston in Joel's paper:   http://blog.chron.com/opportunityurbanist/2013/02/houston-dominates-americas-growth-corridors-and-makes-the-case-for-the-worlds-highest-standard-of-living/

Consider these two excerpts talking about foreigners in Houston:

Houston and Dallas already have a higher rate of international immigration than such traditional magnets as Chicago, Washington, and Philadelphia. A recent Rice University study found that Houston now surpassed New York as the country’s most racially and ethnically diverse area.

Today, Third Coast ports Brownsville, Tampa, and Houston have some of the highest rates of foreign immigration in the nation. Traditionally, this migration has come largely from Mexico and Latin America, but newcomers are increasingly arriving from Asia as well. Over the past decade, Houston’s Asian population has expanded by 160,000, or 70 percent, and the city is now home to the eighth-largest Asian population in the nation. Houston’s Asian migration is growing 50 percent faster than migration flows to such established Asian hubs as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle.