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Just because you are tired doesn't mean others will not continue the debate. The world doesn't revolve around you and your notions. One [tired] monkey does not stop the show.
It certainly doesn't revolve around a North Carolinian view of the world. The District is not geographically, culturally or economically part of the South.
Just because you are tired doesn't mean others will not continue the debate. The world doesn't revolve around you and your notions. One [tired] monkey does not stop the show.
I didn't say I'm tired - I said the debate is. It's been settled. You're welcome to search the other threads about it since it's completely off topic on this one. If you ask a true Southerner they will laugh in your face at the notion that DC belongs lumped in with Birmingham, New Orleans, or Atlanta. I'm yet to meet anyone living here who's ever called DC culturally or economically part of the South. We're way too rude, transit-focused, and unwilling to talk to you on the street.
Just because you are tired doesn't mean others will not continue the debate. The world doesn't revolve around you and your notions. One [tired] monkey does not stop the show.
The debate is tired. Please see previous ridiculous threads of: "it's south of the Mason Dixon line/a fraction of a fraction of the population speaks with an accent" vs "literally everything else is northern".
and while I also believe that DC PLUS transit oriented areas in NoVa and MoCo make up an even larger share,.
on TOD growth in suburban jurisdictions - while I have no data for 2010 to 2011, the 2000 to 2010 data is interesting. In Fairfax County, there were several census tracts that declinined in population, and many that grew slowly. I think the fastest growing tract was Reston Town Center, and also fast growing were Tysons (not yet reinvented) and the Merrifield area. The only other area with really fast growing census tracts was the Lorton area, which I guess was the county's last area where significant greenfield development was possible (and of course Lorton has at least a touch of urbanism, with its town center and VRE station)
In Loudoun there was very fast growth in greenfields suburbs like Brambleton (also with touches of urbanism) but also several tracts in Cascades, Sterling with slow or no growth - but there was relatively quick growth in the tract including Dulles Town Center, despite slow growth or decline in adjacent tracts. Even Loudoun County is not immune to thse kinds of trends.
dc is experiencing a white flight from the suburbs and other states and growing with young professional roommates, because that's where most of the jobs are for new college graduates, so people continue to flock there to find work, and the u.s. government as well as the local private sector is a win-win opportunity for a lot of people.
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