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California and NYC have a declining population.
by Drunk_Engineer 5y ago
California and NYC have a declining population.
- pixl97 5y agoAlong with huge portions of the rural midwest. It all has to do with meeting the demand where the demand exists.
- yawaworht1978 5y agoJust distorted number because of increases homelessness. Sarcasm , however, there is a bit truth to that.
- viscanti 5y agoIf you cherry pick data during COVID that's true. But it was the first year since 1900 with any decline and state forecasters say it's more to do with over 50,000 COVID related deaths and less migration from other countries (the largest source of population growth for CA for many years now) because other countries were locked down. As far as I know, no one expect that decline to be anything more than a very temporary thing.
- adventured 5y agoCalifornia's population expansion clearly hit a wall back in 2017-2018, pre-pandemic. 2019 saw their population expansion de facto stop. The rate of growth has been dropping rapidly toward zero for much of the past decade, and they reached that line before the pandemic hit, it's not a new trend due to Covid. This decade it'll go negative. The exodus - a desperate flight from California's particularly horrible governments and epic mismanagement - will get worse yet, not better. Fewer people want to live in California and it's very obvious why. 2010 to 2020, California saw a 6% population expansion. The slowest decade of population growth in a century for the state. Year to year, it went from very slow growth at the beginning, to zero by the end. Next is a contraction. Texas by contrast saw 16% expansion in that time. It's booming and it's also very obvious why.
- treeman79 5y agoFled California a dozen years ago. I miss the weather, but otherwise glad to have left. Gang violence, over regulation, out of control prices, etc. Can’t imagine going back with all this nonsense around legalizing shop lifting, segregation coming back. Let the downvotes start
- peter422 5y agoI’m sure the place you moved is perfect with no problems whatsoever. Just like California used to be back in the good old days before things changed.
- bsder 5y agoYeah, I note that these kinds of spammy comments used to always mention Texas. Now I note they don't mention Texas quite so much, anymore.
- pempem 5y agoIt doesn't need to be downvoted. You identified yourself with your word choice. Separately I hate the over usage of the word "fled". No one was chasing anyone. In an age of basically yearly refugee crises in the world it's terrible to see its overuse.
- refurb 5y agoFled means to “run away”. What does have to do with “chasing” and refugees?
- majormajor 5y ago> This decade it'll go negative. The exodus - a desperate flight from California's particularly horrible governments and epic mismanagement - will get worse yet, not better. "You can tell that the government has failed and nobody wants to live their by the fact that it's too expensive" doesn't really add up to me... Texas cities have lots of empty surrounding land to sprawl into further, which massively helps with supply and prices. This is not some magic feat of government. They're less dense, not more dense.