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[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by ferraris

Washington County is a large area. The portions closer to Allegheny County are able to attract higher income people who want new construction. If you could drill down in the data I'm sure it would be clear that some areas of Washington County are growing in population and some are losing population.

I'm not going to argue with this. I understand that people would rather live in Peters Township than somewhere in the Mon Valley. I just think it's a colossal waste of prime open space to utilize this land for new housing when essentially you're just picking up a dwindling population and spreading it thinner like butter.

[JoeP]

So Washington County is declining in population, yet new residential construction there continues to proliferate? That makes sense because...?

Ok, let's try this again.

Population gain or loss not = migration only.

In Pittsburgh's case, natural change - births vs death is a significant issue because the steel collapse 30-40 years ago forced many to leave the region creating an odd demographic gap and the region "lost out" on a lot of births, causing the area to demographically age fast deaths to exceed births.

Few areas have this anomaly.

Generally speaking more people have moved to Washington county than from it in recent years.

[ferraris]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

I'm not going to argue with this. I understand that people would rather live in Peters Township than somewhere in the Mon Valley. I just think it's a colossal waste of prime open space to utilize this land for new housing when essentially you're just picking up a dwindling population and spreading it thinner like butter.

Prime open space? Prime for what exactly?

I'm sure Washington County and Peters Township are happy to attract high income tax payers.

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by Caladium

I'm all for sponsoring National Nooky Night. It's good for the community!!

Screw the community, good for me.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by Copanut

Screw the community, good for me.

Screwing the entire community will take some time.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Screwing the entire community will take some time.

I know! I only hit about 0.5% of my goal before I moved out of Northern Virginia!

[Caladium]

Originally Posted by speagles84

The people are soulless! They aren't counted by the census.

LOL LOL LOL hmmm seems like a logical explanation to me!!!

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Screwing the entire community will take some time.

It's called Viagra.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

So Washington County is declining in population, yet new residential construction there continues to proliferate? That makes sense because...?

Because Peters, Cecil and North Strabane Townships aren't all there is in Washington County. Part of the county borders the Monongahela River, and includes decrepit towns like Monongahela, Donora, Charleroi and West Brownsville. And the rural southern and western parts of the county are more than likely dying as well.

Counties in Pennsylvania are typically large enough that there can be wide variances in population distribution and growth across them.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Because Peters, Cecil and North Strabane Townships aren't all there is in Washington County. Part of the county borders the Monongahela River, and includes decrepit towns like Monongahela, Donora, Charleroi and West Brownsville. And the rural southern and western parts of the county are more than likely dying as well.

Counties in Pennsylvania are typically large enough that there can be wide variances in population distribution and growth across them.

So let's just abandon towns in one half of the county, letting them decay, while plowing over farmland and woodlands in the other half of the county to start over?