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I don't think they are going anywhere due to the strong support, having 9 million people within 90 miles and the commissioner is from Jamestown originally.
And IMO, VA Beach cheated! Fifty years ago, VA Beach was just a collection of small towns, suburbs and rural areas. They threw wide boundaries around it, incorporated it, and voila! Instant "city"! It'd be like the entire state of NJ incorporating itself as a city to surpass NYC!
Virginia Beach didn't "cheat." Norfolk grew to be crowded (310,000 persons in 53 sq. miles) and land became expensive. Cheap land, invention of the automobile and the interstate highway system made Va Beach more attractive. Now Virginia Beach has 440,000 inhabitants, while Norfolk is stuck at around 240,000.
Virginia Beach didn't "cheat." Norfolk grew to be crowded (310,000 persons in 53 sq. miles) and land became expensive. Cheap land, invention of the automobile and the interstate highway system made Va Beach more attractive. Now Virginia Beach has 440,000 inhabitants, while Norfolk is stuck at around 240,000.
I think the poster was talking about how VA Beach merged with its home county to create an instantly bigger city of about 250 sq mi. Norfolk, at about 55 sq mi, grew organically, which is why it is more dense, whereas VA Beach is much more sprawled.
I find the entire Rust Belt Situation rather interesting.
Please excuse my lazy wikipedia numbers!
Detroit- 1950: 1,849,568 to Est 2008: 912,062
Buffalo-1950: 580,132 to est 2008:270,919
Pittsburgh- 1950: 676,806 to est 2006: 312,819
Cleveland- 1950: 914,808 to est 2008: 433,748
Rochester- 1950: 332,488 to est 2008:206,886
Syracuse- 1950: 220,583 to est 2008:138,068
Buffalo, NY was once a booming city with close to 600,000 people living in city limits.
Today Buffalo is a dying city with a little over 250,000 people living in city limits
Alot of that has to do with American factories moving to China and other low-wage countries. Our politicians have sold us out.
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