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> They use them heavily when they're available. The NYC subway is very popular and successful, and many see it as a selling point of the city. NYC has only 2.5
by rayiner 11mo ago
> They use them heavily when they're available. The NYC subway is very popular and successful, and many see it as a selling point of the city.
NYC has only 2.5% of the U.S. population and even then it has net domestic outmigration (meaning more people move out every year than move in). The city would be shrinking if it wasn’t for international immigrants, who don’t come to the city for the public transit, but rather the welfare system and ethnic social networks.
- woodruffw 11mo ago> The city would be shrinking if it wasn’t for international immigrants, who don’t come to the city for the public transit, but rather the welfare system and ethnic social networks. I think your numbers are wrong: the city's foreign born population has been stable for at least 15 years[1]. We're not even at historic highs; those were before WWI. [1]: https://cmsny.org/publications/data-briefing-on-new-york-city-immigrants/ https://cmsny.org/publications/data-briefing-on-new-york-cit...
- ordu 11mo ago> the city's foreign born population has been stable for at least 15 years This statement doesn't contradict the one about international immigrants keeping the city from shrinking. It is easy to imagine how immigrants come to NY, give birth to natural born Americans, who then move out of the city. This process can come to some kind of a dynamic equilibrium with a stable population of foreign born people.
- rayiner 11mo agoNot only that, when an international immigrant to the city later moves out of the city, like my cousin’s family did, that’s also counted as domestic migration.