The economy in Rhode Island (Providence, Newport: sales, apartments, foreclosures)

[wxjay]

Originally Posted by Rhodeislander

Dense population?
Dallas Texas 343 sq miles approx 1 million people
RI is 1214 sq miles and again 1 million people
Dallas does not need 39 police and fire chiefs, 39 school districts and administrators.
Please expalin this to me, I'm open minded.

You're comparing a major city in Texas to an entire state. That is flawed on many levels. Your best bet would be to compare a state versus a state and do the comparison per square mile.

[Rhodeislander]

Originally Posted by wxjay

You're comparing a major city in Texas to an entire state. That is flawed on many levels. Your best bet would be to compare a state versus a state and do the comparison per square mile.

Density was the issue, density is units per area of space. Rhode Island is not densly populated, the comparison is valid. Please explain why RI is considered densly populated as stated in the other posters message.

[Signora]

I was just reading online that RI is the second most densely populated state in the US.... New Jersey is the most densely populated....

[Rhodeislander]

Originally Posted by Signora

I was just reading online that RI is the second most densely populated state in the US.... New Jersey is the most densely populated....

We are the second most densly populated state, I would have never thought that?
I guess we need the 39 cities and towns then.

[wxjay]

Originally Posted by Signora

I was just reading online that RI is the second most densely populated state in the US.... New Jersey is the most densely populated....

That is exactly correct.

[ProvGuy]

Rhode Island is more like a metropolitan area than a state. Case in point, the entire state is within one Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), the body that decides where federal transportation dollars will be spent.

[Signora]

I remember when someone first told me that RI was so densely populated I was also shocked. When I would tell visitors from other countries they had a hard time believing it because of all the green they saw on the drive from Boston to Aquidneck Island.

I grew up in RI and do miss some things about it. I don't know if I would move back (I was going crazy with the traffic on 195 and 95)... but I do like to go visit. Has the traffic improved any with the changes on 195? When I left, they still had not finished....

[Rnrboy]

Well, the thing is, most of the population is along the coast, and inland around Providence. If you go into Western Rhode Island, or out to Tiverton/Little Compton, there are plenty of sparsely populated areas.

But yes, RI is the second most densely populated state. But I believe something like close to half of the land area is actually rural. A really neat place for this and many other reasons.

[whitetaildeer]

alot of people i know have left the state to find jobs. most of the people i know from high school moved to the south or joined the military.

one friend left with his family to NC
one got a decent state job, but his wife is working as a private school teacher making low 20k
a lot of people i graduated college with have gotten nice jobs out of state. one guy moved to Virginia, one went to NC, and two i know went to CT.

It took me awhile to find a job after college so i worked in retail, and there was a lot of college grads working with me. i eventually found a decent job, but im still making less than my peers in other states, which now isnt too bad considering i have a job when many people dont.

[whitetaildeer]

Originally Posted by Rnrboy

Once we cut taxes for the middle class, restore services, and invest in infrastructure.

what services need to be restored and what kind of infrastructure do you think should be built in RI?