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Old 03-15-2012, 08:13 AM
 
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I only wish the last 200,000 people to leave the city went straight to Indianapolis.
That's where many of the former CHA residents moved. The urbanophile, did some analysis on this.
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Old 03-15-2012, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Chicago will continue to lose people. By 2015 Chicago will be down at least 100,000 people. Personally, I'm tired of the corruption, waste and never-ending ways to fleece people out of their money(see school zone spped cameras).

More than a few people that I know have relocated or are relocating to the south. I had a chance to get a job n Atlanta but I wasn't interested. I guess I'm not that smart.

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Old 03-15-2012, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Hopefully me! I would say the growth will be stagnant, people continuing to flee the Southside and all the new development on the near west/north sides. Let's say +20,000.
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Old 03-15-2012, 05:14 PM
 
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Chicago will continue to lose people. By 2015 Chicago will be down at least 100,000 people. Personally, I'm tired of the corruption, waste and never-ending ways to fleece people out of their money(see school zone spped cameras).

More than a few people that I know have relocated or are relocating to the south. I had a chance to get a job n Atlanta but I wasn't interested. I guess I'm not that smart.
Good luck matching your quality of life in Chicago with whatever you THINK you could have in Atlanta.
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Old 03-15-2012, 06:11 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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Good luck matching your quality of life in Chicago with whatever you THINK you could have in Atlanta.
That depends on an individual's definition of "quality of life". That concept means different things to different people, you know.
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Old 03-15-2012, 06:44 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Good luck matching your quality of life in Chicago with whatever you THINK you could have in Atlanta.
I don't THINK about what I could have in ATLANTA, I KNOW what I could have. After all, I did use to live there. That's why I had no interest in returning. It's not my type of place, even if the winters are non-existent.

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. Still, I am getting tired of some things around here.
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Old 03-15-2012, 07:30 PM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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Population rise and fall is not much different than the ebb and flow of the ocean. The experts are currently telling us the cities that experienced significant loss to the suburbs 20-30 years ago are now experiencing a reverse flow back into the city. They cite factors such as cost of travel, distance and empty nesters.

If the experts are right I expect the City of Chicago to gain - but not a great deal. The City is saturated and there is not much room for expansion.
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Old 03-15-2012, 07:39 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Population rise and fall is not much different than the ebb and flow of the ocean. The experts are currently telling us the cities that experienced significant loss to the suburbs 20-30 years ago are now experiencing a reverse flow back into the city. They cite factors such as cost of travel, distance and empty nesters.

If the experts are right I expect the City of Chicago to gain - but not a great deal. The City is saturated and there is not much room for expansion.
There is plenty of room for expansion. Have you been to the south side lately? Empty lots galore, vacant houses/apartment buildings/commercial buildings... the city could easily hold 3.5 million if not more.
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Old 03-15-2012, 07:52 PM
 
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There is plenty of room for expansion. Have you been to the south side lately? Empty lots galore, vacant houses/apartment buildings/commercial buildings... the city could easily hold 3.5 million if not more.
How many people who can afford to live in Streeterville want to live in that area? By the time empty nesters retire and return to the city most do not want to rehab or build a new house.
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:03 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Which area? There are plenty of south side neighborhoods that are "up and coming" and have new homes already built- Bronzeville for instance. Much of the South Loop is expanding- years ago there were no high rises on Roosevelt, now the skyline extends to Roosevelt. Nobody said anything about empty nesters- a good majority who come to the city nowadays are suburban kids looking for "diversity". As gentrification happens, neighborhoods change. Chicago 10 years from now will be decently different than Chicago today.
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