Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss
by BMc2020 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:41PM
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No major American city has failed at the same level as Detroit, whose population dropped from 1.85 million people in 1950 to about 630,000 today. Move over Detroit, here comes San Francisco, which lost 6.3 percent of its population between 2019 and 2021, a rate of decline larger than any two year-period in Detroit’s history and unprecedented among any major US city.
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New York City lost 3.5% in the same time period, which is way, way more people in the absolute sense. So if SF is an abyss, then NYC must be apocalyptic right now.
Also these figures are census estimates which are not accurate down to this level of precision anyways.
Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss
by AuthorizedCust on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:51PM
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Huh? So if a town of 1000 loses 100% of its population, no biggie because NYC?
That wouldn't be unprecedented either.
But it's hard to say with a straight face that SF losing 50k people is unprecedented among major US cities when by the same measurement in the same time period NYC lost 300k.
Many small towns routinely lose more than 6.8% of their population within a year. It's not really news...
For that town it sure is. But for the state/country it resides in? Not really.