Wow, that’s a LOT of words. Some key things are missing — quality of life and crime. Almost all big cities have become irreparable, filthy, disgusting cesspools. People in their 20s might tolerate it for a few years, but they soon move out.
The author wrote “It has shifted decisively in recent years to less urban and lower-density states such as Idaho...”
I can attest to the huge influx into North Idaho. Ugh.
Small towns are better anyway
I’ll happily take the “backwaters.”
Just south of Raleigh is one of the fastest growing towns in the USA, due to the Research Triangle Park industrial growth.
The name of the town is CARY, which we always joked stood for “Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.”
However, after the influx of all the Indians with work visas, the joke now is that they changed the spelling of the town to CARI, which stands for “Containment Area for Relocated Indians.”
I hear Detroit is cheap.
The hippie era of the late 1960s led to a big trend to set up communes in country areas. Mother Jones Magazine had cover stories such as “How To Get Out of the City Now.”
One article said: ...”participants sought to grow their own food, use alternative energy, and produce their own necessities, reducing their dependence on the consumer economy.”
Crime would be the bigger factor in IMO.
But I’m no *expert*.
I moved out of a small People’s Republic City ~10 years ago.
Now I’m in deepest fly-over country and couldn’t be happier.
When I spoke to a neighbor who had moved here from the big city I asked why they had chosen our area I got the usual spiel about prices and land and fresh country air. Later his wife quietly said, "it has been almost 40 years since there was a murder here. We want our kids to be safe."
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Cities are prisons, open air mental institutions, and urban reservations.
Cities support fewer and fewer industries. A quick look at a simple list shows just how few need to remain in a city, especially since the implementation of electricity and combustion engines.
Accommodation
Accommodation and Food Services
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Administrative and Support Services
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
Air Transportation
Ambulatory Health Care Services
Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
Animal Production
Apparel Manufacturing
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
Broadcasting
Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
Chemical Manufacturing
Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Construction
Construction of Buildings
Couriers and Messengers
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
Crop Production
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
Education and Health Services
Educational Services
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
Electronics and Appliance Stores
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
Finance and Insurance
Financial Activities
Fishing, Hunting and Trapping
Food and Beverage Stores
Food Manufacturing
Food Services and Drinking Places
Forestry and Logging
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing
Gasoline Stations
General Merchandise Stores
Goods-Producing Industries
Health and Personal Care Stores
Health Care and Social Assistance
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Hospitals
Information
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting
Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing
Leisure and Hospitality
Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets
Machinery Manufacturing
Management of Companies and Enterprises
Manufacturing
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
Mining (except Oil and Gas) (NAICS 212)
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Miscellaneous Store Retailers
Monetary Authorities - Central Bank
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
Natural Resources and Mining
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
Nonstore Retailers
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
Oil and Gas Extraction
Other Information Services
Other Services
Paper Manufacturing
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
Personal and Laundry Services
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
Pipeline Transportation
Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
Postal Service
Primary Metal Manufacturing
Printing and Related Support Activities
Private Households
Professional and Business Services
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Publishing Industries
Rail Transportation
Real Estate
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
Rental and Leasing Services
Repair and Maintenance
Retail Trade
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
Service-Providing Industries
Social Assistance
Specialty Trade Contractors
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores
Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
Support Activities for Mining
Support Activities for Transportation
Telecommunications
Textile Mills
Textile Product Mills
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
Transportation and Warehousing
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
Truck Transportation
Utilities
Warehousing and Storage
Waste Management and Remediation Services
Water Transportation
Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers
Wholesale Trade
Wood Product Manufacturing
Liars. Big cities have been losing population since the 1960s. The main reason given by escapees is that big cities are hostile to families with children.
Note also that the urban propagandists have expanded the population count to include surrounding suburbs, which they now redefine as “metropolitan” areas, not exclusively the core big cities themselves.
It’s all BS and a failed effort to attract stupid people back into the crumbling, failed big cities run by democrat thieves.