I am sure all those newborns will be happy to pay off the SD pension debacle.
Posted on 03/17/2006 5:07:37 PM PST by BurbankKarl
For the first time in more than three decades, the population of San Diego County declined last year, joining other California coastal counties that are losing their allure as high housing prices drive home-buyers to more affordable regions.
The surprising reversal of the county's long-standing population gains is revealed in U.S. Census Bureau estimates released today showing thousands more people leaving the county than moving in from other parts of the state and elsewhere.
While the county's overall loss of population was 1,728 between July 2004 and July 2005, the more telling number is the net exodus of 43,126 people, many of them who likely headed up Interstate 15 to Riverside County, where housing prices are still considerably lower than in San Diego.
“This is pretty stunning,” said demographer Ed Schafer of the San Diego County Association of Governments. “The net out-migration (domestically) is so powerfully high. That's the story. Riverside (County) is just the opposite. Here you have the coastal counties with all these people leaving them but the counties just to the interior have all these people moving in.”
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The Census Bureau said San Diego County's population was 2,933,462 as of July 1.
Santa Barbara and Ventura counties and several coastal counties in Northern California also had population declines last year.
People also moved out of Los Angeles and Orange counties, but the two counties were able to muster modest population increases.
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I am sure all those newborns will be happy to pay off the SD pension debacle.
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It's too bad. San Diego has traditionally been a bedrock of Republicanism and conservatism in Southern California and is a beautiful place to live besides.
"the more telling number is the net exodus of 43,126 people"
Illegals picked up the slack and SD came out almost even except for the giant increase in welfare and free medical that they brought with them.
Good news - more room for illegal immigrants, soon to be American citizens : )
There ya go! Thanks!
WHOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!
LOL! Massachusetts has experienced a drop in population, seems many many people are exiting this State, can't imagine why, Tom Reilly, taxes out the kazoo, illegals getting away with murder literally among other crimes, did I mention taxes out the kazooooooo, a legislature that is clueless, did I mention taxes????
Are you sure this "net" figure does not factor in illegal immigrants?
You've been following developments in Congress too?
Read it again, that's what I just said.
California has been losing 250,000 California born residents a year for a while now....but they are more than replaced by immigration, legal and illegal, from Asia and points south....and their newborns.
What say ye, Travis?
Oh, O.K. "43,126 people" didn't sound like "almost even" to me.
What, again, is the difference between "250,000 California born residents" and "newborns" born in the State of California and therefore also U.S. citizens?
43k moved out but the net population loss was only 1,700, illegals made up the 41k difference,
Taxpayers left, tax users arrived.
Drive safely on your way out.
will we see some new congressional districts in four years - with two or three more inland congressmen?
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