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a kennedy

(29,655 posts)
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 11:30 AM Aug 2021

Thought this was interesting from the census about major cities population.......

The fastest-growing big city in the country is Phoenix, which surpassed Philadelphia as the fifth largest. Immigration, a tech boom and middle-class Californians seeking affordable housing all contributed to Phoenix’s growth, The Times’s Jack Healy explains.

The change in Phoenix reflects a trend: All 10 of the largest U.S. cities saw their populations rise in the past decade. Three big cities in Texas — Houston, San Antonio and Dallas — outpaced the national average.

New York City also grew by nearly 8 percent, defying predictions that its population was on the decline. The city now accounts for nearly 44 percent of the state’s total population.

The metro area that grew fastest since the last census, though, was not a major city; it was The Villages, America’s largest retirement community, located outside Orlando, Fla.


The Villages?? Should haven known…….lotsa repubs there. Ugh……

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Thought this was interesting from the census about major cities population....... (Original Post) a kennedy Aug 2021 OP
The more we concentrate old republiQans in The Villages, the less political power they have. Scrivener7 Aug 2021 #1
That's true, thanks..... a kennedy Aug 2021 #2
Conversation between a new resident and the manager of the Villiage marble falls Aug 2021 #3
😂 🤣 😂. Loved that TV show, "The Prisoner". Patrick McGoohan....hubba hubba a kennedy Aug 2021 #6
One interpretation of that dialogue csziggy Aug 2021 #9
Look out for bubbles. Big ones, especially, number eight. marble falls Aug 2021 #11
"All you need is love"...... nt Baked Potato Aug 2021 #10
I'd like to know who UnderThisLaw Aug 2021 #4
Who would move to Phoenix, or any arid locations in the southwest? CrispyQ Aug 2021 #5
I live in the Phoenx metro area. former9thward Aug 2021 #8
Your prophetical record has been shown to be wanting. LanternWaste Aug 2021 #12
If the census had been conducted this year instead? LiberalFighter Aug 2021 #7

marble falls

(57,077 posts)
3. Conversation between a new resident and the manager of the Villiage
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 11:46 AM
Aug 2021

"I'm number 2, You're number 6."
"Who's number 1?"
"You're number 6"
"I'm a man, not a number!"
"Well, sit on the Scotch Guarded chair in case you number 1 or number 2. Now then, dear, what is your name?"

a kennedy

(29,655 posts)
6. 😂 🤣 😂. Loved that TV show, "The Prisoner". Patrick McGoohan....hubba hubba
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:57 PM
Aug 2021

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
9. One interpretation of that dialogue
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 01:27 PM
Aug 2021

"I'm number 2, You're number 6."
"Who's number 1?"
"You are, number 6"

So Number 6 is actually Number 1 but for whatever reason doesn't know or remember that he is.

UnderThisLaw

(318 posts)
4. I'd like to know who
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 11:51 AM
Aug 2021

predicted a decline in NYC pop.
Love it or hate it, it’s the center of so much commerce it is not going to be affected much by the issues that have affected a lot of cities in the Northeast. It’s population rarely declines from census to census

CrispyQ

(36,457 posts)
5. Who would move to Phoenix, or any arid locations in the southwest?
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:20 PM
Aug 2021

What are people going do with the Colorado River runs dry? Water levels at Lakes Powell and Mead are at historic lows.

Two of America’s largest reservoirs reach record lows amid lasting drought.
By John Schwartz
Published July 27, 2021
Updated Aug. 4, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/lake-powell-water-level.html

snip...

Too little water is coming into the lake, and too much is being sent downriver to maintain levels in Lake Mead, which is also at historically low levels. The two reservoirs, among the largest in the United States, are part of a river system that provides water to more than 40 million people.

The dams that hold back the water on the lakes produce hydropower for many Western states, and electric production from the Hoover Dam at Lake Mead has dropped by about 25 percent during the drought.


more...

Brad Udall, a senior climate scientist at Colorado State University, was more blunt: “I’m struggling to come up with words to describe what we’re seeing here,” he said.

The effects of climate change and water use management have led to “off the charts” water depletion, he said, comparing the water restriction measures that are currently in place to a parachute. “I worry that the parachute is not big enough,” he said, “and that we didn’t deploy it soon enough.”

former9thward

(31,984 posts)
8. I live in the Phoenx metro area.
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 01:25 PM
Aug 2021

We have no real water issues here. Note the article is being written by someone 3000 miles away. Any water issues will affect industrial farming mainly. Which will mean less food to be shipped to the east coast.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
12. Your prophetical record has been shown to be wanting.
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 06:15 PM
Aug 2021

Your prophetical record has been shown to be wanting, and this seems to be little more than the same.


"This has been over-hyped by the media." As you wrote in regard to Covid on Thu Feb 6, 2020

"But everyone ignore that..."

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