Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
- By studying population trends and forecasting models, researchers have come to believe that nearly 15,000 U.S. cities will face noticeable depopulation by 2100.
- Populated areas of the cities in question could experience a decline of up to 44 percent.
- Projections call for the biggest drops in city populations to occur in the Northeast and Midwest.
I live in a city and it sucks and I cannot wait to get back to the burbs. I don’t live in downtown, so it is not walkable, despite it being a dense area. So I pay more, own less, and do less than if I was back in the burbs. I have no idea why anyone over the age of 25 wants to live in a city. I cannot fathom being an elderly person living in a city. How do you put up with that? I absolutely cannot stand it. I’m glad I tried it, because now I know for sure how much I despise it. I’m not even 30 yet.
Older people who have mobility issues sometimes prefer cities because markets, banks, care providers, other services can be close to home, it easily within ~5 minutes walking/golf cart distance.
The problem with cities is exactly the reason I’d want to move there: cars. I don’t want to be tied to cars, car payments, car traffic, car repairs. The only way to get out of that is to move to the city, where I can walk, ride, or take public transit.
Problem: I’m always constantly less than 5 feet away from a fucking road and fucking cars in a city, I hear them when I’m awake and when I’m asleep–there is no escaping cars in a city.
Reality: I’d rather be in a car than next to one if those are my only two options.
We need to get cars the fuck out of cities and give people real choices.
Your usage of city and their usage of city differs.
They are talking about cities like Cameron with a declining population not even hitting 1,000.
That’s a very unconventional use of the word “city”.
Yeah, I don’t know what defines a city. I’m guessing each state has it’s own definition based on population.
I’d personally call less than 1,000 a village.
Varies by jurisdiction.
In the US a lot of places are defined by the structure of the government rather than anything to do with their size.
I went to school in a “city” of less than 1k people.
The only address that was actually in the “city” was the post office.
Obviously below “subway” population levels, which is the only place I’d want to live. Because life with a subway is awesome; and life without rail transit is abysmal.
I live on the edge of urban/suburban in a small city and absolutely love it. 10 minutes to bike into downtown, tons and tons of businesses and job opportunities, and just a much better community atmosphere. Anytime I go into more suburban/exurban areas, it’s downright depressing at this point knowing that it takes 5 minutes in a car to get to literally anything that’s not another identical house.