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It seems to me, these would be the states to avoid since relatively rapid population growth usually causes more quality of life, infrastructure, and cost of living problems. The reasons people begin moving to a state are usually lost once more and more people actually move there.
The US Census Bureau considers the Northeast to include the New England states (shown in Green) and the Mid-Atlantic states (shown in Blue). Maryland and Delaware are not included in the definition.
The Northeast Region gained 1,722,862 (+3.2%, vs. 3.9% Midwest, 14.3% South, 13.8% West)
We've had these debates before on the forums. Most people nowadays consider Maryland and Delaware to be mainly part of the northeast/mid-Atlantic. That's why I included them here for the sake of completeness.
Actually, I was hesitating about whether to include Virginia as well. Even though it's a southern state, people don't consider northern Virginia to be southern. But that's where a high percentage of its population growth happened between 2000 - 2011.
If you took immigration out of the equation, you see less people in many Southern and Western states too. Immigration is a part of the fabric in the US. So, it comes with the territory.
Also, you do get people that leave and come back, as well as people leaving those cities are just moving to the suburbs, in many cases.
I wasn't trying to take immigration out of the equation. The one poster stated that thousands were leaving N.E. cities, the second poster called his post a "Fail. Epic fail." which was completely wrong.
Many places have people leave and come back and leaving to go to the suburbs, especially when in some areas the suburbs are an 1 1/2 hour train ride, is still just leaving.
the northeast a whole isn't losing population, the actual "myth" is that many cities in the north east and great lakes are/have lost population, such as NYC, which has lost population a couple of times. And some cities in those two areas are just now gaining population again, such as Philadelphia. Or Chicago which has went from 3 million in 1950 to 2 million in 2010. And many u.s. cities not in the western u.s. have actually lost population for a few decades after 1950, and some still are.
the northeast a whole isn't losing population, the actual "myth" is that many cities in the north east and great lakes are/have lost population, such as NYC, which has lost population a couple of times. And some cities in those two areas are just now gaining population again, such as Philadelphia. Or Chicago which has went from 3 million in 1950 to 2 million in 2010. And many u.s. cities not in the western u.s. have actually lost population for a few decades after 1950, and some still are.
What is the motive behind saying that a city lost population, but not mentioning that its metro area actually gained population?
Everybody knows that the population within a metro area shifts around all the time.
I wasn't trying to take immigration out of the equation. The one poster stated that thousands were leaving N.E. cities, the second poster called his post a "Fail. Epic fail." which was completely wrong.
Many places have people leave and come back and leaving to go to the suburbs, especially when in some areas the suburbs are an 1 1/2 hour train ride, is still just leaving.
or if the city hasn't annexed anything in decades. So, you can move to a suburb and still be 10-20 miuntes from Downtown in many cities in the Northeast outside of the Bos-Wash corridor.
Most of WV's population growth currently is around Martinsburg (very eastern tip of the state) and in Morgantown (on the northern border). Without those 2 border areas, the state would be losing population.
What is the motive behind saying that a city lost population, but not mentioning that its metro area actually gained population?
Everybody knows that the population within a metro area shifts around all the time.
not to mention significant changes in the household size since 1950. Meaning a place built out with shrinking residents per residence would decrease; this is actual at least as large a factor of city population reductions as are migration or flight to the burbs
the northeast a whole isn't losing population, the actual "myth" is that many cities in the north east and great lakes are/have lost population, such as NYC, which has lost population a couple of times. And some cities in those two areas are just now gaining population again, such as Philadelphia. Or Chicago which has went from 3 million in 1950 to 2 million in 2010. And many u.s. cities not in the western u.s. have actually lost population for a few decades after 1950, and some still are.
But places like Chicago might have lost population in the central cities, which were already built out to their city limits by 1950 or so, but you really have to look at metro areas population. Chicago's metro has doubled in population since the city itself hit its peak population. There use to be massive amounts of families with 4-5 people in the household back then. It's much more a city with singles or newly married couples now, and then people move out to the burbs when they have kids. A reason the suburbs have grown by 800,000 people in the 1990's and 550,000 people in the 2000's.
Yawn. Fact is that people are negative and annoying and like to put down a lot of areas they don't like, similar to how I put down the South sometimes. Fact is that if you don't like the northeast, then leave...I need a lower rent price.
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