San Francisco Falls into the Abyss

Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss by peter422 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:49PM (#34469644)

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.

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Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss by AuthorizedCust on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:51PM (#34469664)

Huh? So if a town of 1000 loses 100% of its population, no biggie because NYC?

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Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss by peter422 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:55PM (#34469708)

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.

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Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss by culi on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:22PM (#34470047)

Many small towns routinely lose more than 6.8% of their population within a year. It's not really news...

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Re:San Francisco Falls into the Abyss by katbyte on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:54PM (#34469699)

For that town it sure is. But for the state/country it resides in? Not really.

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