And no eminent domain in Manhattan. Safest real estate value in the nation.
Posted on 06/30/2005 8:58:59 AM PDT by 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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I spoke with someone who told of San Francisco's "price control" efforts - a controlled condo in a building full of $600,000 condos can only be sold for $300,000, and cannot be resold for more than $300,000 for about 30-40 years.
It isn't hard to figure out how this effects the market and the construction of new housing.
Sadly The ol Frankmeister is the One in the Mass congressional contingent that makes the most sense. Not that what he says is sensible.
Anyone who doesn't leave Joliet or Chicago needs to have their head examined.
When you say cities, make a distinction between San Francisco and well Jacksonville.
There are plenty of cities in this country that are not liberal hellholes, I live in one.
I can't blame them at all. Many people "vote" on where to live with their feet and their pocketbooks. The schools, as they are, in Joliet are good, for starters - certainly better than the public school offerings in the city of Chicago. And there's always Joliet Catholic for those who want a private (high school) option.
Which is why we need a Minuteman Project for counties. If you live in a red county that borders a blue one you should be out on the border looking for pink Volvos with "Celebrate Perversity" bumper stickers. Send them back into the filth from whence they came until they learn the error of their political beliefs.
If we had done this fifty years ago we could have saved New England.
Die Hippies Die!
On our way to losing another in 2010. I hope it's Fast Ed Markey.
Boston a homo capital?
And no eminent domain in Manhattan. Safest real estate value in the nation.
Next time we are dead certain to lose one of our ten illustrious Congressmen and one of our electoral votes.
It will probably be someone from the western half of the state. The eastern half is still doing well and the Boston pols look after their own. There's enough clout in Brookline and Newton to guarantee Barney Frank a district.
I could see Ed Markey's district getting carved up. Only if he decides to retire on his own, though.
Chicago has everything anyone would want. Fantastic food, great culture, great educational institutions. In short, everything which makes civilization civilization.
Of course, you do need to know your way around but for those who do it is a great place to live. Those who don't might have some problems.
An interesting wrinkle: 2012 is when a Senate seat should open up because Ted Kennedy will be 80 years old and have served 50 years in the Senate.
Yes...most Texas cities (save Austin) for example.
Cincinnati, Ohio ain't bad. Akron (where I live) however, is quite liberal as is Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, and Dayton. Youngstown too.
"...they are so stupid as to want to make their new home like the old one..."
A lot of southern Californians have moved up here to western Washington. So many times I've heard, "How do you people get by up here without a state income tax? You really NEED an income tax."
Thanks for playing. Now, go home!
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