As many of you probably know, Corpus Christi, Texas is my hometown. It has a population of over 325,000 (as of 2017), numerous tourist attractions (including the USS Lexington and the Selena museum and statue of Selena (1)), a minor-league baseball and hockey team, and is the fifth-largest port in the US, among other things...
Your challenge, with any PoD after 1852 (when it was incorporated) is to have Corpus Christi (the city itself, not the metro area) have a half a million people by 2018.
(1) Although Selena was born and spent some of childhood in Lake Jackson, her family settled in Corpus Christi in the 1980s after the 1980s oil glut bankrupted them, and Corpus Christi is considered her hometown (read @RySenkari's Player Two Start for one take on what might have happened had she lived)…
Your challenge, with any PoD after 1852 (when it was incorporated) is to have Corpus Christi (the city itself, not the metro area) have a half a million people by 2018.
(1) Although Selena was born and spent some of childhood in Lake Jackson, her family settled in Corpus Christi in the 1980s after the 1980s oil glut bankrupted them, and Corpus Christi is considered her hometown (read @RySenkari's Player Two Start for one take on what might have happened had she lived)…