Your Vote Counts!! Metro Area Runoff please vote!!

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by Katarina Witt

It's funny, by any definition, to see the high vote totals for cities that are so far down the list. It just shows you CD is not reality.

City-Data gives brownie/bonus points for older, walkable, denser cities whereas most Americans actually are moving to places that are newer, non-walkable or only semi-walkable, and less dense. I have yet to see one major U.S. metro area where the core city is growing while the suburbs are in decline. In the best case scenario both the core city AND suburbs are growing (i.e. Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, etc.) There are many more places like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, etc. where the core city is in decline while the suburbs are growing.

[Katarina Witt]

Actually, it's a bit different than when I made that post, though Chicago, at the bottom of the growth list, in a state that is also declining in population, is tied with Seattle and Atlanta for the most votes. Three very different cities.