Posted on 12/22/2004 9:28:59 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Massachusetts was the only state that had a population decline - albeit down a slight 3,800 people, or 0.1 percent, to 6.41 million. Demographers speculated it could have been caused by an exodus of people leaving to escape rising costs in the Boston area.
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Yeah, but you got all those cockroaches in NY City that have a super high breeding rate.
How true. I live it every day......"back where I came from we do it this way".
Yippee!!! Less Dimwitted electoral votes!!!
States that would gain are FL, TX, AZ and UT.
Hey you better quickly raise TAXES to make up for the lost revenues!!!
I heard this morning that we are going to lose another congressman because of the population drain.
Erie county loses 1% of it's population every year..
Thing is, it sounds like the relief from Boston's high cost of living is to move into the 'burbs.
Well lemme tell you...I live in MA, but 100 miles from Boston, and I can't find a decent house for under $250k- that's with minimal land, a house in good repair, and in an area where I don't need to install bars on the windows; hardly lifestyles of the rich and famous.
It's not Boston guys- the whole state is overpriced.
Tell me about it! We told all our family and friends it was just so our votes would mean something this year. LOL!
In MA, as in other states, those who have kids tend to move further and further away from the city and the expensive and established suburbs, because of the high cost of living. Plenty of them don't stop until they reach New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, the areas closer in are taken up by single Yuppies. That's the downside of having large college population, when they're finished with school, they don't go back to where they came from, but stick around and bid up rents and house prices.
Sooner or later, somebody may start redeveloping the inner suburbs and designing complexes especially for people with kids, in the same way that singles, emptynesters, and oldsters now have their own developments. Will it work, or will they still want forests and homes with a half-acre or so of their own land?
Western part of the state ... outside Springfield.
Yeah but they've just about thoroughly polluted New Hampshire in their mass exodus (sorry). New England's last great red bastion has slowly been turning from pink to blue.
This will make state legislative control in those states VERY important, as they are the ones that get to draw the lines.
Of the states that will lose a seat: NY is split, PA, OH and IN are Republican in both chambers.
Of the states that would gain a seat: FL, TX, AZ and UT are Republican in both chambers.
Sounds VERY good for us for the 2012 Congressional elections!
That's what all communist states have had to do - build a wall to keep the people in. We all remember Ronald Reagan talking about folks "voting with their feet", don't we?
I would suspect that the inner-city areas are more than making up for those leaving.
"I just cannot understand it...My wife and I keep Doing It, but HE still is not pregnant!"
I'm not sure he can explain the reasons, but he'll tell you that he has a plan, and that he can do it better than did the Administration.
Ya beat me to it!
Please don't let them move to MN! We've got enough lefty problems, thanks!
That's exactly what has happened in Maine. We went from a nice conservative state to one of the most liberal in about twenty years. I don't even recognize the town I grew up in (coastal town) anymore. Virtually no year round businesses, no locals can afford to stay in their homes (taxed to death) so they sell out and move.
There are almost weekly news articles about "new" businesses. They are all the same. We wanted to get out of the city. Maine is so nice, but it lacked thus and such, so we decided to go into business and, yada, yada, yada. They hire two people at minimum wage and close up at the end of October to winter in a warmer climate, but they manage to vote absentee (liberal of course) to keep the little people penniless. Sucks!
Seriously looking to retire to a very red state.
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