Well, Seattle population has grown tremendously, in all colors. Interestingly, while the population has ballooned the number of children that are registered in the public school system has declined significantly (I want to say 20%, but I’m not sure of the numbers).
I wonder how do they explain that?
Rochester, NY...They’re building big condos right in the heart of the town for business people...but turn the corner...And it’s a slum and VERY scarey.
That’s alright by me,as long as I can keep my little piece of the country.
Once the work day is over I flee the city and I’m glad to leave.As far as i’m concerned there’s nothing there except pain,High taxes and misery.
Media hype. Downtowns are ‘popular’ in some cities, but gross population numbers will tell you that large urban core cities are not growing as much as smaller ex-urban areas.
"According to a poll for Reuters, about 10 per cent of Americans said they were considering moving closer to work while roughly the same percentage said they were thinking about getting a job closer to home." (article)
Blam, 'considering' and 'thinking about' constitute a stampede for today's urinalists, if it's something they favor. If it's something they don't favor, it'll never see print.
Of course, the housing prices in the city are far, far lower than those in the ‘burbs, thereby making the savings on gas so worth it. (For libs, that’s a Kerryesque misinterpretation of reality.) I figure the payback will be in - say - about 500 years or so. Dream on, oh left-wing journalists.
You won’t see any evidence of people migrating back to the cities, since most of the jobs moved out to the suburbs along with the people.
bodes poorly for conservatives
state loving young liberals flocking to cool areas where they can be activists like they were taught in school and expect the state to look out for them
their only pitfall are the goblins that await such delicious pickings on their perimeter
Yeah, here in Atlanta several major projects and our notoriously bad traffic are creating a boom in intown living. Some of it very encouraging and I was amazed when I was in some areas recently that used to be just useless. Tearing out one of the worst housing projects certainly helped.
I call it BS.
Lots of cities are building more condos within.
Wouldn’t call it a massive influx back. I don’t want to live
in the concrete jungle....want to go more rural if anything.
Which means 80%+ are not. Do we have nothing but "green" PR agents in our "Journalist" organizations now? This story is so much absurd wishful thinking.
What did they do let the Summer Intern from the Journalist school write this? This story is so bad not even most college newspapers would run it. Note to Rotters. MOST jobs in the USA are no longer in the Urban areas. They too have moved to the suburbs. So "moving closer to work" does not necessarily mean moving into an Urban area.
F for the author for writing such drivel, F to the Editors for publishing this garbage.
If I had my choice of housing, it would be further away from the city with a few acres of land.
Nobody has moved anywhere in this town. Everybody is sitting tight while putting up ‘For Sale by Owner’ signs. Nobody buying, nobody selling. 100,000 population spread out over 50 mile radius.
*"Sanforized" is an old process to keep one's clothing from shrinking in the wash. I'm not even sure it's still around... guess I'll have to Google that, too!!!
The only thing these self-annointed EnvironMentalists have ever accomplished is to make everything cost prohibitive!!!
“I’ve not seen any evidence of migrations back to the city. Has anyone else?”
....yes, but it depends on the neighborhood....when my daughter called me Sunday she mentioned that there had been an uptick in activity at her inside-the-beltway neighborhood in Maryland...she’s 7 miles from downtown Washington, DC....believe me, 14 miles a day roundtrip in that area ain’t bad....there’s plenty of people that do 100 and up, and I do mean up......around there, transportation costs can be second only to your house note in your monthly budget.
Chicago.
I live in the heart of the city of San Diego.
More people are selling their homes going into condos.
In the downtown area, over 30 high rise condo bldgs have been built and more are under way, many up to 43 stories high. Over 30,000 have moved downtown recently.
They range from near million dollars a unit to 12 million a unit on up.
I am just up from downtown and condo bldgs also built in recent yrs and still going up. Most of these run from half a million to 4 million+ a unit
Many units are being sold before the bldgs are built.
I was stuck in the Apple because of my job. Once I retired I moved to America! I'm now in the “ex-urbs” of a bustling town of 7,000 (when the college is in session)