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Between 2022 and 2023, the U.S. added approximately 1.58 million people, or grew its population by about 0.5%. However, not all states grew by the same proportion. In fact, some states saw their number of residents drop, both from net population loss (deaths outnumbering births) and from net migration (emigrants outnumbering immigrants).
We visualize the U.S. states with population declines between July 1, 2022 and July 1, 2023, along with the percentage change. Data is sourced from Census Bureau estimates, released May 2024.
Blue states did this to themselves by making building illegal.
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what are Blue states ?
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Blue meaning affiliated with the democratic political party
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California and New York
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Love to see the outflows from Cali. More beach and ocean for me. You may ask "wow why desire to stay in an infected and corrupt and cater-to-upper class state?" and my response would have to be I'm a bitcoiner. I'm agnostic to their shenanigans. The oceans are blue and clear and the beaches are still warm.
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Prediction Time:

After 50 or 100 years from now cities will be dead and a new concept of Nature Homes will be adopted!
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Cities are essential to our way of life and are likely to endure. Their importance is tied to the growing global population. However, a catastrophic event that decimated the population could certainly have a profound impact on the future of urban areas.
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These people aren't primarily moving to nature. They're moving to mid-size metros in the Sun Belt.
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To visualise the reason of population decline in big cities ghas to be related to people becoming concious about living closer to Nature.
There is also a growing concern about rising prices of rent and other things. People are also getting more opportunities outside the big cities
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If you notice, these are mostly Blue states. People are tired of the crime. I bet you'd see that a lot of these people ended up in Florida or Texas
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Yes, you're right. I should have included crime as one of the reasons. I left a city in 2020 because of increase in Crime by government authorities and police.
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Most of them have one thing in common, cost of living and taxes have surpassed individuals' ability to make ends meet. My biggest question is what happens when the tax receipts fall too much due to the population outflows?
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This is a worldwide problem, nothing new
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I don't understand what a global problem is, can you expand on that?
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I think @7ac5aafdeb is pointing to a trend that capable people are leaving places where taxes are high and everything is catering to the special needs of trans / immigrants / etc - and people are flowing into lower tax areas that take don't cater to those same special needs.
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