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I am all for religious freedom and all, but there is a lot of tensions between the Orthodox Jewish community and everyone else. Not a very welcoming place and if you live by it you will feel the strong tensions. They can be super racist to POC and non-Orthodox Jewish women.
There was/is a big orthodox population in the part of Brighton, MA where I grew up. Yes they tended to have larger families, wear tradition clothing/hairstyles, etc. but they were generally fantastic neighbors and not like what I read in that wiki article about the residents of KJ. It sounds like that group may be an especially conservative offshoot of the sect.
In any case, a community like KJ would probably be hard to form in MA in exactly the same way since all political power lies in the hands of the town governments. There’s no complex delineation of powers between county, town, and village.
And even if KJ is fast growing, it only has 30-35k people which isn’t very large by Northeast standards. The fact that it’s the new principal city for its MSA is more a testament to the small size of all the cities in that area of NY.
CT also relies on the most powerful city in the world. New Orleans would be ok if Biloxi was New York.
If NY really boosted CT so much, then places like Bridgeport and Waterbury would be MUCH nicer. The NY economic influence diminishes as you move east from Fairfield and north from Danbury.
Though I guess you have a point that the state gov is boosted by taxes from Greenwich. Can’t argue that point, I can just point out that it doesn’t mean much of the state isn’t dilapidated.
CT also relies on the most powerful city in the world. New Orleans would be ok if Biloxi was New York.
Well it's not like the 200k people just up and left the area this week. St Tammany is still right there across the lake. The commuting threshold just dropped below 25%. That's all.
I am wondering how much of that is due to covid.
That area has a loooooong connection with the city, and it owes a lot of its growth due to people moving to that side from New Orleans after Katrina.
The next update will be in 2018. I would bet that St Tammany will be back in the metro by then.
I'm going to begin doing CSA calculations for population (July 1, 2022 Census Estimates). Unlike my previous numbers which prioritized speed over accuracy, I went through and calculated these and did a side-by-side with the previous bulletin from 2020.
I'll start with the 13 CSAs that anchor MSAs over 5 million.
ATLANTA CSA Components
Athens: 220,405
Atlanta - Atlanta Division: 4,861,631
Atlanta - Marietta Division: 1,375,804
Calhoun: 58,954
Cedartown: 43,709
Cornelia: 47,475
Gainesville: 212,692
Jefferson: 83,936
LaGrange: 104,279
Rome: 99,443
Thomaston: 28,086
ATLANTA CSA POPULATION: 7,136,414
Population under Previous Population: 7,088,898
Change: +47,516
Losses: Toccoa µ (-26,767), Jasper Co. (-19,467)
Gains: Calhoun µ (+58,954), Lumpkin Co. (+34,796)
Correction: Please note that I found 1 error in my previous synopsis that was causing my numbers to be off. It turns out that Lumpkin County was added to the Atlanta MSA and I did not catch that.
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