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Why would you bring back a two year old post just to bash the city. I predict that the 2010 census will show that the population of the city and region will have stabilized.
Word on the street has it that The city population of Buffalo has stopped declining, and is enjoying a small, but steady, population increase in the urban core.
This being said, I do agree that the 2010 Census will indeed show the Buffalo population at a fairly steady number - similar to the 2000 Census, perhaps a few more!?
BTW, the city population in the city of Buffalo during the 2000 Census, was in fact 292,000. Just for the records. Look it up for the exact number- including all the homeless, this population would be 300,000+ !!!
Word on the street has it that The city population of Buffalo has stopped declining, and is enjoying a small, but steady, population increase in the urban core.
This being said, I do agree that the 2010 Census will indeed show the Buffalo population at a fairly steady number - similar to the 2000 Census, perhaps a few more!?
BTW, the city population in the city of Buffalo during the 2000 Census, was in fact 292,000. Just for the records. Look it up for the exact number- including all the homeless, this population would be 300,000+ !!!
The population is much less than your figures and even if you count the homeless--what good does that do. The city of Buffalo does not need quantity, it needs a quality population. It needs the new creative class that will encourage investments; create a vibrant city; built businesses and work cooperatively with all ethnic groups. Unfortunately, many of those people are leaving Buffalo, and more creative people are less inclined to move to a dying city; creativity attracts creativity.
It is very sad and needs to be changed, for these decaying cities are important to the whole country and should not be ignored. Maybe some of that wealth that is sucked up by New York City will go to the other parts of the state--but that is a dream because the State of New York never had a concern for the welfare of the whole state.
Perhaps we should put a cap on the population of Downstate and tax heavily any population increase in these areas; and at the same time reduce and elimanate taxes for movement to the rest of the state and huge incentives for businesses to move out of downstate to the decayed cities of upstate.
FWIW, you all might realize that lots of the info on the parent site of this forum has drastic errors -- a classic is Lancaster having somewhere near 10-11,00 people.... they forgot to add the town to the village ( it truly has 40,000). I have noticed this on several towns: village population is reported and town is not added.
Buffalo is down at this time. Burbs are up.
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I am hoping that all those people leaving are the ones that hate Buffalo. I think there is alot more people moving back to Buffalo then most think, when I was looking for a house I lost a couple because other people offered the sellers more. I am glad they did too because I love my new house on Parkside. I like Buffalo the size it is, we get much bigger and it will be alot like NYC (nice to visit but would never want to live there).
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