Posted on 09/10/2019 12:54:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is this the age of the great metropolitan exodus? In 2018, the New York City area lost more than 100,000 people to other cities and suburbs—that’s 277 people leaving every day. The Los Angeles and Chicago areas lost, respectively, 201 and 161 residents each day. It’s quite a change from the post–Great Recession period, when an urban renaissance was supposedly sweeping the country and all three metro areas were experiencing a population boomlet.
What’s going on? And where is everybody going?
To understand any metro’s migration picture, you have to know that the census keeps track of two types of movers. First, there are “domestic migrants,” or people who move from one U.S. address to another. Second, there are “international” movers, which mostly means immigrants. (Populations can also, of course, add new human beings the old-fashioned way: births. U.S. fertility rates are at record lows, and this statistic varies less from city to city.)
For many years, the New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago areas have seen more departures than arrivals among nonimmigrants. Domestic migration to these metros has been negative for most of the 21st century.
Also for many years now, America’s biggest metros have attracted high-income firms and young, highly educated workers. On the one hand, this phenomenon had led to the sparkling revitalization of many downtown areas, a golden age of fine dining, and an eerie urban selfsameness with green-plant-and-exposed-brick coffee shops and lunch-in-a-bowl restaurants. But on the other hand, this urban blossoming has also made many desirable downtown areas too expensive for non-rich people to start a family, forcing new parents to move out to the fringes of the metro, or leave entirely.
There’s little mystery about where people are heading, or why: They are mostly moving toward sun and some semblance of affordability.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Because they are turning into third world hell holes and everyone who can is leaving.
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I read that about 10% of the black population of Chicago has moved out in the last 9 years.
When people think of Chicago, they may think of shootings and black youth gangs and social problems. But it was interesting to learn that so many black residents are moving away. Decent black people don’t want to live in Chicago, and are voting with their feet.
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Maybe because of the crime rate? Excrement? Taxes?
Oh, I know, democrats.
5.56mm
because they’ve become dirty, filthy HELLHOLES ... local political scum taking away your liberties ... and earnings (highest taxes.. for worst public services)
real dirty hellholes...less and less liberties despite our constitutional “protections”.... and very expensive places to try to survive, too
any sane person would get OUT of such Demonkrap hellholes, ASAP.. and many are doing exactly that!
Massive numbers of black people have moved out of Detroit since I lived in the area 30 years ago.
They can’t shoot the gangs themselves and the gangs aren’t gonna leave so....
[[[What’s going on?]]]
Left wing governance. It destroys everything it touches. This is expanding to a state phenomenon also.
A wealthy elite class
A dead or fleeing middle class
A vibrant dependent class
Breakdown of civil society
Increasing crime
High taxes with high debt
Horrendous infrastructure
Shrinking economic opportunity in a balanced form
High cost of living all around
They must all be moving here to DFW, this place is growing like crazy.
Everyone ask yourselves, would YOU want to live in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles? Ask yourselves what would it take to get you to move to those places? The job of your dreams, big dollars in some job, a paid for Manhattan co-op such as Chelsea Clinton gets to live in?
There are reasons why any city or town is growing, or declining, as the case may be.
JP Morgan is moving one of financial planning and analysis operations from New York to Plano, Texas. They laid off hundreds here who refused to relocate.
“Because they are turning into third world hell holes and everyone who can is leaving.”
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And more can afford to do so now, thanks to the booming Trump economy:)
no price would suffice to make me move to any of the horrible hellhole cities (that, in most cases, were ruined by D-commie-leftist politics.. over many years of it, too...one destructive policy or act piled on top of another, year after year, and eventually you get a hellish dump)
I know I live right next to their building. It’s a pretty impressive campus they have here.
Did some of these cities get a flood of 'refugees' that overwhelmed community resources, raised taxes, and disrupted schools and neighborhoods?
You pretty much summed up the reason why the populations are falling. Not to mention the fact the cost of living, including taxation, have gone through the roof in all three places.
[[[JP Morgan is moving one of financial planning and analysis operations from New York to Plano, Texas. They laid off hundreds here who refused to relocate.]]]
Once the financial industry starts bolting from NYC, this state is finished. The left has basically destroyed every other industry here. That coupled with the fracking ban has sentenced the state to economic death.
Upstate is systematically being depopulated.
Thank you Andy Cueball.
Yep, and add to that the high taxes to pay for their socialist utopia and losing the state tax deduction (capped at $10K iirc). The problem is, they are moving into low tax states like Florida and Texas and bringing their liberal politics with them. I’m in nyc now, and I’m afraid by the time I am ready to retire, they’ll have ruined the areas I want to move to. Rush talked about them ruining Georgia already and others have said North Carolina and Arizona as well.
They will flee and destroy were ever they go..
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