Census lists fastest-growing cities (San Francisco, Boston losing population)

CNN ^ | June 30, 2005

[Skylab]

Census lists fastest-growing cities

Thursday, June 30, 2005; Posted: 10:18 a.m. EDT (14:18 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consider a move to Gilbert, Arizona, if you're looking to trade in that two-bedroom home for four bedrooms and a pool in the back yard.

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"People come here because there are good jobs, it's pretty affordable and it offers lots for the families, too," she said.

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The numbers show new residents flocking to midsize cities in Florida, Arizona, Nevada and California. Hurt by skyrocketing housing prices, people are leaving San Francisco, Boston and other large cities in droves.

San Francisco and Boston found themselves among the cities losing the most people between April 2000 and July 2004. Boston, for example, shed more than 19,000 people, or 3.4 percent of its population, while San Francisco lost 32,000, or 4.2 percent.

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[the invisib1e hand]

Boston a homo capital?

molesting little boys is the state sport.

The first time I saw a ball gag was on the cover of a book in a Cambridge bookstore. Right next to the book about overthrowing your country.

I was merely walking by and happened to glance in.

[freeangel]

"so they're going to knock down expensive houses to build cheap ones?"

No doubt acquiring them by eminent domain for the public good. LOL

[Left Coast Refugee]

"But, really, haven't Californians crapped in their own nest? Haven't they?"

No, they haven't, they have just endured the most population growth, job growth, and illegal immigration. What you get are secondary effects to Californian's moving to your neck of the woods.