Is this the end of cities in America? – The Hill

"Among the biggest losers this year, in terms of total population loss, were New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the District of Columbia. New York lost at least 300,000 residents this year...Los Angeles recorded more than 25,000 moves out of the city while Chicago logged over 20,000."
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joe strzalka
5 years ago

Don’t worry, building 6,000 condos at LIncoln Yards will fix everything.

Ex Illini
5 years ago

It’s just starting in Los Angeles. The only thing California has going for it is the weather, and even that is starting to get dicey. Watch and enjoy as people and businesses vacate that disaster.

Heyjude
5 years ago
Reply to  Ex Illini

Just hope they don’t take their progressive policies and voting to their new locations

Jeff Carter
5 years ago

It is not the end in the long term but in the short term it is. People are attracted to cities. But, when cities aren’t safe (not talking about Covid, just regular safety) they leave. Cities have energy and are efficient. Despite the problems, it can be an incredibly easy life. You don’t need a car and other things. You have access to entertainment, restaurants, and interesting people. Easy access to airports to get away.

Tell me which city in America has that today? They are horribly mismanaged geographies of graft.

debtsor
5 years ago
Reply to  Jeff Carter

For most of the history of civilization, cities have been disgusting cesspools of crime, disease and filth, inhabited mostly by the poor and impoverish. Elites with means lived outside the city in large farming estates; in essentially commuter suburbs. And the ‘cities’ that did exist were mostly just administration capitols for the greater region as most people lived in rural areas. Even at the height of the Roman Empire, only 10% of the population lived in cites, the rest lived in small communities dotting the landscape, roadways and waterways. In the late 19th century, public works figured out how to… Read more »

chumpchange
5 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

You’re extreme.

Aaron
5 years ago
Reply to  chumpchange

In what way?

chumpchange
5 years ago
Reply to  Aaron

You’re extreme.

anonymous
5 years ago

Bye Bye Chicago

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