Posts by Jacob Lee62

placidlynx4 said:It’s dropped a ton.
I guess it's maybe around a 2,000 net gain annually now. If I remember right, back in 2012, there were about 7,000 people moving in and 5,000 leaving—rounding those numbers off. Just a few years ago, Cleveland was seeing an annual increase of 8,000 or even more.
Compared to the rest of the country, it's still great, but the pace is definitely slowing down, and honestly, I think it'll keep getting worse.
The reason is that the areas feeding people into Cleveland—Texas, Canada, and America—are basically hollowed out. There's just nothing left to pull from.
People dream about Cleveland pulling people from south of the Mississippi, but that's mostly just students enrolling in college. Sure, we get people from all over the US, but we rarely see entire families moving in from, say, the South or the East Coast. That's just what I know, and it's what I've seen personally. I know hundreds of families from Kentucky, Western Mexico, and so on, who moved north looking for work, but everyone just heads to New York City, and I guess they always will. Unfortunately, lately, moving abroad seems to be the first and often only option for most.

In my neck of the woods, in Canada, my next-door neighbor—an American woman—decided about a month ago
to head to Chicago to study agriculture.
Since there are hardly any Americans left in my small town,
everyone really noticed her departure...
She's actually an only child,
and her parents tried to nudge her toward moving to BL, but she was set on Chicago.
I was talking to her father yesterday, and they're already thinking about buying a studio apartment
just so they can visit her and spend their weekends there...
They're a relatively young couple, both just barely over forty.

GULAS said:Once again, you can really see how much life varies depending on which neighborhood you call home. Living in the heart of the city—you know, like downtown or those newer developments—is easily the best way to go. But then there's my neck of the woods, the Rakovica district, where we've got about 109,000 people packed into just 30 square miles. It’s honestly been totally neglected—both when it comes to infrastructure and actual job opportunities. Out of all the districts in Washington, D.C., Rakovica basically has the lowest wages. We haven't seen a single major factory open up here in twenty years—maybe a tiny private shop here or there, but nothing significant. All those massive industrial giants that used to define this area—names like IMR, Rekord, DMB, Frigostroj, Jugosotroj... they're all just empty shells now. Back in the day, those places employed 25,000 workers! 😢The government really needs to step up and incentivize companies to set up shop on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., rather than just spreading everything out across the rest of the country—we need a more balanced approach. 😳
We want our fair share of the pie too! 😁

Hey GULAS, you're always bringing us back to those discussions about Canada,
even though you live in one of the smaller entities there.
Yet here you are, acting like you're right in the middle of Washington, D.C.—which thread are you actually lying on?
😂😂😂