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No surprise California ranks #1 in the nation for population
Texas is a solid #2 position
but.
Look at New York and Florida....within a few hundred thousand of eachother. I predict within the next 3 to 5 years Florida will have more people than New York. I think this has huge implications for NY as a whole.
It's clear the population centers are shifting south and west...aka the sunbelt. The top 3 most populous states will soon be California, Texas, and Florida
What do u think this means for Florida?
NY has historically been such a power house in terms of population, however it seems to be losing ground.
New York has historically been a power house in many things beside population. Florida, on the other hand, hasn't been a power house in much of anything note worthy (except maybe weird news stories). More people doesn't necessarily mean more prosperity.
This is a well known trend. Should occur before next census. NYC area is the only vibrant population growth in the state. Upstate NY has been bleeding population for decades, asking with the rest of the rustbelt
New York has historically been a power house in many things beside population. Florida, on the other hand, hasn't been a power house in much of anything note worthy (except maybe weird news stories). More people doesn't necessarily mean more prosperity.
Yes, NY is a power house for taxes and espensive real estate. NY never has any wierd stories either.
Its funny to think the 2 states: Florida and NY practically have the same populations at the moment, yet Florida has no cities nearly even close to the size of NYC. . . .
Rather, Florida has many more "mid-size" cities like Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, etc.
Probably means retiring baby boomers from the NE want to retire in a warmer climate..
Well, there's no doubt that retiring baby-boomers have an impact on the population, but the median age in Florida is getting younger and younger, meaning "snow birds" and retirees are being outnumbered my younger people... also the large Hispanic population is young and tends to have a higher birth rate as well.... n addition to that more families moving here, young professionals, dare I say?
Note though that Florida's population growth has slowed or even perhaps reversed since the housing meltdown. I do think that in the 2020 Census Florida will be bigger than NY (and then NY will stay "5th" for a long time as the states immediately below out, Illinois and Pennsylvania, have 7 million less people and equally stagnant population growth), but I wouldn't be surprised if Florida "flatlines" around 20 million for a Census or two after that.
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