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In Reply to: RE: The cities Americans are ditching. posted by free.ranger on July 23, 2015 at 20:29:56
In the DC area where I grew up which made the map there are cities and towns that either didn't exist or have grown immensely. Loudoun county for instance which has Leesburg, Ashton, Sterling and others along with Fairfax county have so many more people than they did in the past. It's just migration from closer into the DC area to further out. Often this was due to attractive housing prices and lower taxes.
I'm sure this model holds true in at least some of the other areas. The ones that didn't lose industry to China and Mexico that is.
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Two story homes with the same design, huge foyer types.. big lots with gigantic lawns. All to become the slums of 2070..
Prime farmland being destroyed. Stupid as Hell.
Areas that used to be farmland a few minutes outside of the Metro area? now all suburban crap. Huge 6 lane roads filling in the old two lane county trunk roads..
When the automobile made it possible for people to get out of the stinking, crowded cities. I grew up in a home built in the 1950s on what had been a corn field. The small town nearby has lost over half of its population since 1945, while the old farms and woodlands all around it are increasingly developed.
It's what people want.
...it has accelerated a lot in just the last 15 years with the cost of money being at an all time low and many other factors. Like I said in the 60's the suburbs went out only a few miles from DC then you were in farmland in almost every direction. I mean about 5-10 miles. Now you can go almost 30,40 miles and still be in suburban sprawl so there is a difference now.
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Current trends are for denser population centers as land is becoming more precious, i.e., little is being left undeveloped.
However, as population grows, what do you do?
Limiting population growth has never been officially considered, except in China AFAIK.
I don't think vasectomies should be mandated at all but we can certainly offer some incentives. Especially when you consider that it's a reversible procedure.
> ...it has accelerated a lot in just the last 15 years with the cost of money being at an all time
> low and many other factors.
On a nationwide basis, I'm skeptical that this is true. There's actually been a return to many cities and towns in more prosperous areas. And the cities in your map? People aren't getting out of Detroit because they can finally afford a home in the suburbs. They're just plain getting out . And people aren't leaving New York City because they'd rather live in New Jersey.
nature will deliver to us, I have no doubt.
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