Miapolis for $22 billion

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April 26th, 2015 at 1:20:29 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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Quote: Evenbob
Just show a pic of Sing Sing, a modern prison has all it needs within it's walls also. No different than Miapolis.


At the turn of the 20th century there were 46 million rural residents and 30.2 million urban residents in this country. Since then we have added 13.5 million rural residents and 219 million urban residents. After at least four census's the rural residents actually decreased. In the 1930's the urban population only increased 5.5 million over a ten year period as there was no reason to immigrate or to move from the country.

While I appreciate that you are entitled to an emotional reaction, you are talking about quarter of a billion urban residents and less than 60 million rural residents.
Without an unprecedented plague, these people are not all going to have a half acre of land per family to live on.
Year rural urban comments
2010 +0.4 +26.9
2000 -2.6 +35.3 illegal migration
1990 +2.2 +20.0
1980 +5.9 +17.4 birth rate drops
1970 -0.5 +24.4
1960 -0.4 +28.4
1950 -3.0 +22.1
1940 +3.4 +5.5 great deoression
1930 +2.3 +14.9
1920 +1.6 +12.2 southern europe
1910 +4.2 +11.8 southern europe
change 13.5 219.0
millions 46.0 30.2
April 26th, 2015 at 1:47:24 PM permalink
Evenbob
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My point is, some people actually prefer
to live stacked like sardines on top of
each other. I did it for a year in Calif and
it drove me nuts, people constantly coming
and going. Look at TBBT, neighbors are
a factor, as they are in a lot of sitcoms. I'm
just used to living alone. I dislike hotels
for the same reason. Before Binions closed
the hotel, I would get a room on the first
floor in the old part. Both times I was the
only guest on the whole floor and loved
it. Real small room, who cares, it's Vegas.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
April 26th, 2015 at 2:20:43 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/UAUC_RefMap/ua/ua69697_pittsburgh_pa/DC10UA69697.pdf Pittsburgh urban maps

I don't know if you've ever seen some of those urban/rural maps put out by the census bureau. It supports their claim that 80% of the country lives on 3.5% of the land.
April 26th, 2015 at 2:43:45 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Pacomartin

I don't know if you've ever seen some of those urban/rural maps put out by the census bureau. It supports their claim that 80% of the country lives on 3.5% of the land.


Go to N MI, not across the bridge,
just halfway up the state. You can
go miles on the side roads and never
see a house in some places. No
industry, no jobs. I think Dow Chemical
in Midland employes about everybody
within a hundred miles. I used to
know a guy who lived up north and
and drove 140 miles one way everyday
just to work in Detroit at Ford. He did
it for 20 years. He left at 4:30am to
be there by 7. Insanity.

Also, 80% of the planet lives north of
the equator. That kind of shocked me.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
April 26th, 2015 at 8:44:38 PM permalink
Pacomartin
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Quote: Evenbob
Also, 80% of the planet lives north of the equator. That kind of shocked me.

That is not totally shocking. 67% of the land (73% of the land if you exclude Antartica) is north of the equator

Michigan is about average in use of the land. The states with very small percentage of urban land have a huge percentage of their population living there.

% Area is urban | State | % of Population is urban
100.00 District of Columbia 100.00
39.70 New Jersey 94.68
38.75 Rhode Island 90.73
38.29 Massachusetts 91.97
37.72 Connecticut 87.99
20.88 Delaware 83.30
20.65 Maryland 87.20
13.81 Florida 91.16
10.82 Ohio 77.92
10.52 Pennsylvania 78.66
9.48 North Carolina 66.09
8.68 New York 87.87
8.34 Georgia 75.07
7.92 South Carolina 66.33
7.19 New Hampshire 60.30
7.11 Illinois 88.49
7.05 Indiana 72.44
7.05 Tennessee 66.39
6.75 Virginia 75.45
6.41 Michigan 74.57
6.12 Hawaii 91.93
5.28 California 94.95
4.56 Louisiana 73.19
4.36 Alabama 59.04
3.57 Washington 84.05
3.57 Kentucky 58.38
3.47 Wisconsin 70.15
3.35 Texas 84.70
2.99 Missouri 70.44
2.66 West Virginia 48.72
2.36 Mississippi 49.35
2.14 Minnesota 73.27
2.11 Arkansas 56.16
1.92 Arizona 89.81
1.90 Oklahoma 66.24
1.71 Iowa 64.02
1.69 Vermont 38.90
1.47 Colorado 86.15
1.19 Kansas 74.20
1.17 Maine 38.66
1.15 Oregon 81.03
1.11 Utah 90.58
0.70 Nevada 94.20
0.68 New Mexico 77.43
0.68 Nebraska 73.13
0.60 Idaho 70.58
0.30 South Dakota 56.65
0.27 North Dakota 59.90
0.20 Wyoming 64.76
0.20 Montana 55.89
0.05 Alaska 66.02
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