Why Americans are ESCAPING These 10 Mid-Sized Metros | The Top 10 Mid-Sized Metros LOSING Population

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On this video we take a look at the Top 10 Mid-Sized US Metros (250K-1M Population) that lost population between the 2020 Census and the 2022 Census Estimates.
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@SombraPiloto 9 месяцев назад

I used to fly for a regional airline out of Atlanta and this video was a big reminder of my time there. I've overnighted more times than I could ever count in Columbus, Peoria, Huntington, Jackson, Charleston, and Shreveport. Living in those cities is surely different than spending a few nights there but I have good memories from all of them.

@hazelunderwood7573 10 месяцев назад

Jackson, MS is no big surprise. I grew up in the metro area and Jackson has no redeemable qualities that made me want to stay there.

@r.pres.4121 10 месяцев назад

Jackson is a smaller scale St Louis or Memphis.

@Michael1966W 10 месяцев назад

I grew up there to and hated that city.

@rob6850 8 месяцев назад

The Johnny Cash song is the only thing I can think of as a redeeming factor.

@Ethyro 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for shedding light on mid-sized metros. They don’t get enough love and always get cut off.

@Brady_Stewart_238 10 месяцев назад

I'm not surprised Shreveport is on here. The place just seems like a dump. There's absolutely nothing to do there. And crime in the city is horrible. The neighborhood just west of I-49 and south of I-20 is the most dangerous part of the city. New Orleans is the only reason that Louisiana is still getting visitors and tourists. And that city expected to be gone soon.

@JesusChrist2000BC 10 месяцев назад

Everything in Lousiana is a dump. If they didn't have LSU it would be tied with West Virginia for worst state in the country on all metrics.

@Bob-zh7lr 10 месяцев назад

@@JesusChrist2000BC Dude, I’d live in WV all day before LA. Not even close.

@RyanS32 10 месяцев назад

I received a full scholarship to Centenary College in Shreveport and nearly decided to go there...until I visited Shreveport. The campus itself is beautiful, but everything else is just sad. Concerns about my personal safety quickly made my parents suggest to me that even with the full scholarship it wasn't worth it.

@JesusChrist2000BC 10 месяцев назад

@@Bob-zh7lr Same

@r.pres.4121 10 месяцев назад

And on the opposite end of US Route 171 is Lake Charles another violent crime infested urban dump that is just like Shreveport, decaying, declining, and dangerous.

@JL-hn6hi 10 месяцев назад

Population loss in university towns (Ann Arbor? Santa Cruz?) could be more pandemic remote learning than anything else, perhaps.

@JamesR1986 10 месяцев назад

Smaller gen Z population then millennial population + more skepticism about the the value of a college degree. Expect a contraction in the number of colleges over the next decade. A small college in my hometown has already closed.

@highlymedicated2438 10 месяцев назад

But in all reality. It seems like any city with a population of 50000 or more are always college towns

@kevinfitzgerald1010 10 месяцев назад

A-squared is simply too expensive. People who think it's cool to live in a major college town have always driven up prices. I've looked at moving back to Michigan several times since the early 90's, and Ann Arbor consistently outpaces the rest of SE Michigan (save for the West Bloomfield area.)

@dvferyance 10 месяцев назад

I thought Ann Arbor was considered part of the Detroit metro area.

@joeyhickman765 10 месяцев назад

Lately going to Ann arbor felt pretty empty

@Markkos1992 10 месяцев назад

Huntington, WV, is a nice place for roadgeeking though with tons of button copy and the Ohio River Bridges.

@mike-sk2li 10 месяцев назад

I'm from Columbus. The main issue is employment. Wages are terrible.

@leonation89 9 месяцев назад

What are the wages

@markiangooley 9 месяцев назад

Peoria itself is under 120,000. I last visited in 2017. They’ve tried to clean things up, and the airport looks especially good, but they’ve lost a lot of industry. I hadn’t realized that the metropolitan area was so populous. I was born and raised in nearby Decatur, and that’s in much worse decline. Bloomington-Normal seems to be the healthiest metro in the middle of Illinois: State Farm Insurance and Illinois State University seem to help. Springfield gets some help from being the state capital. But Chicago area voters overwhelm everyone else, and because of them and others in depressed towns I don’t see Illinois becoming attractive to businesses, or lowering taxes on individuals.

@brianboggs7455 9 месяцев назад

Western Central Illinoisan here. I concur with your conclusions.

@BoratWanksta 9 месяцев назад

Decatur and Danville always are the 2 central Illinois smaller metros with the most unemployment, and worst population statistics. It's too bad, considering these 2 cities used to have a lot more jobs. I think you can argue that C-U does alright for itself too, besides B-N.

@clydedoris5002 8 месяцев назад

You dont want some of these areas to have money sometimes that makes it worse

@jstoli996c4s 10 месяцев назад

Most of West Virginia is very beautiful and scenic. But Charleston and Huntington are along major rivers, leading to endless industrial brownfields 🏭 WV definitely needs to find a way to diversify away from coal.

@r.pres.4121 10 месяцев назад

Charleston, Huntington, and Wheeling all need to diversify their economies but until the regressive thinking and political corruption that plagues West Virginia keeps holding the state back, nothing is going to change for the better and more prosperous West Virginians will continue to leave for better more prosperous locales.

@AndreA-dl5po 10 месяцев назад

There are only about 11,500 and declining coal workers in all of WV! The state government continued fixation on it does no favors for the state's future. It's like a 90 year old man complaining every day about his no good ex-wife that left him in like 1973. Major action is needed as this is most definitely not a location many people are seeking to relocate to. One video claiming EVERYONE was suddenly migrating there was nonsensical. It was fewer than 5,000 people but that doesn't off-set the deaths greatly exceeding births.

@gilesbowman1189 9 месяцев назад

WV isn't even in there....................

@kalburgy2114 9 месяцев назад

The West Virginia mountains make it too hard to get anywhere. I don't see growth there with current transportation options.

@kfergus3662 9 месяцев назад

Huntington,wv has no business, No Jobs and the taxes and there many fees

@FireboltPrime 10 месяцев назад

As someone mentioned earlier West Virginia is done dirty by it's geography being the heart of Appalachia. The lack of diversity in the state's economy is just insult to injury.

@WheelcraftBicycles 10 месяцев назад

I moved to WV 8 years ago. They really need to promote tourism in the state because the beautiful hills is one of it's best assets

@beats4life971 10 месяцев назад

@@WheelcraftBicyclesain’t nothing there but yt ppl.

@ChuckHackney 9 месяцев назад

Chuck here, a Tar Heel, but I always hurt for West Virginia because it truly is one of our nation's most beautiful states. It's geography, though, has done it no favors as you mentioned, but John Denver knew what he was singing.. "almost heaven, West Virginia"..

@BMWE90HQ 9 месяцев назад

The Feds destroying the coal industry didn’t help.

@gilesbowman1189 9 месяцев назад

Nobody cares what you think, and that's ridicuous.

@r.pres.4121 10 месяцев назад

I am surprised that Youngstown Ohio and Utica New York were not on this list.

@cumulus1234 9 месяцев назад

Youngstown is improving

@golfnz34me 10 месяцев назад

West Virginia needs to find a way to court remote workers from Northeast. They could offer fabulous housing with beautiful views for a fraction of the cost of a NY brownstone.

@matthew8153 9 месяцев назад

Except we don’t want Yankees here. We’d rather bring in Southerners.

@charlesharmon4926 9 месяцев назад

I’m from Louisiana and visited West Virginia. It pretty scenery but you have more ignorant confederate flag wavers there than down here. Most of those hillbillies don’t even realize their state was created because the people there didn’t want slavery like the planters in Richmond.

@matthew8153 9 месяцев назад

@@charlesharmon4926 The southern half of what is now West Virginia sided with the Confederacy. It was conquered after the Battle of Charleston.

@toolwithintention 7 месяцев назад

You don’t want those bad northeastern people

@dwaynekeenum1916 6 месяцев назад

@@matthew8153confederacy lost by that logic and using the term yankee in 2023 shows why ur state is bottom 5 in every metric

@jesuispain 10 месяцев назад

Love your videos, Mike, super informative and interesting.

@ronbown3836 9 месяцев назад

Michigan is a state where we don't have wildfires mudslides tropical storms or earthquakes. Natural beauty is only hours away up north.

@psychiatry-is-eugenics 9 месяцев назад

Detroit probably is the best location in the country, for fresh water and weather .

@rickcobos1724 10 месяцев назад

Some comments on certain markets: Your pronunciation of Yakima exposes that you're long overdue for a PNW trip. I'm happy to see that you showed the Chattohoochie River when spotlighting Columbus, GA. That is one of my favorite riverwalks in the entire nation and if my travels had no time constraints, I could spend an entire day there. That whole region is just gorgeous. When I'm in metro Jackson (MS), most of my time is in the suburbs thankfully. I can say that Brandon, Ridgeland, and Madison are all beautiful with the big reservoir park nearby as well. It has none of the notorious issues that the core city has sadly become known for. Also, at the time that I first visited in late 2021, the metro had no Chipotle location and led me to discover one of its best competitors - Moe's Southwest Grill, which I highly recommend for its delicious tofu option. Ann Arbor gets my strongest recommendation for visitors. A beautiful, walkable, and incredibly affluent college city. Seriously, what other city with only 100K has not one but TWO Whole Foods locations? It's another city that I wish I had more time to enjoy during my visits to nearby Detroit. Shreveport is a weird one for me. The geography itself is gorgeous forest terrain, but the people have not maintained it well as an urban area. Crime is said to be very high but I have found safe places to park at and sleep in my car overnight, I shit you not. When visiting, I give my strongest recommendation to visiting the downtown riverwalk and for dining, the Well+Fed restaurant on Egan St; thankfully, the abandoned shithole house next to the Well+Fed parking lot is gone. This local mom-and-pop establishment also has a very friendly black-and-white cat that visits regularly!

@seanmcdirmid 10 месяцев назад

Jackson is a throwback to the 1960s segregation. The city itself is heavily black, the suburbs are mostly white. E.g Clinton is 50% white, 38% black, Pearl is 62% white, 26% black. Jackson is16% white, 78.5% black. Having lived in Vicksburg, I went to Jackson a lot and drove through Shreveport to get to Dallas (and Monroe would make the list of small cities losing people). Shreveport is a bizarre place to pass through. The riverwalk didn't exist in my time, however.

@rickcobos1724 10 месяцев назад

@@seanmcdirmid oh I believe it, that’s the case in most cities I hit. The lower-income it feels like, the likelier it’s non-white.

@shvdfw 10 месяцев назад

I’m from Shreveport originally. It is sad to see the decline of the city. There are lots of people working hard to make it better and being a Shreveport optimist, I believe that the city will bounce back at some point. It just needs to get the ball rolling on some economic development and get the crime under control. The city is situated in a great geographic location for potential growth.

@rickcobos1724 10 месяцев назад

@@shvdfw it could be seen as a cheaper alternative to DFW but I don’t see the economic opportunities. The weather is just as miserable as DFW certainly. Meanwhile Ruston and Grambling are apparently investing with the expansion of Buc-ee’s.

@seanmcdirmid 10 месяцев назад

@@shvdfwWe actually stopped at Shreveport a couple of times on the way from Vicksburg (where I was living at the time) to Dallas for vacations. It wasn't bad, it was weird in the sense that the rest of Louisiana was, like a throw back to some kind of past, an old sears that hadn't be updated much by the late 1980s (this might have been 88 or 89), a BBQ joint. Like Monroe, another weird town that we visited more often, with its old shotgun ranch houses (and then Baton Rouge/New Orleans, the chemical plants everywhere, the weird swamps, it was nice).

@Ethan-em8yn 10 месяцев назад

great videos , i learn so much thank you keep up the facts

@steinravnik8692 10 месяцев назад

Lived in Columbus, GA for 6 months. Population decline only tells half the story. The area is in demographic decline as well. More affluent demographics have been leaving Columbus to neighboring Harris county for years. And as you mentioned, many leave the area altogether for Atlanta. If you think Columbus is bad, Macon has the same issues as Columbus but even worse.

@vinylcabasse 10 месяцев назад

Columbus has the second biggest corporate presence in Georgia after Atlanta though, *by FAR* - AFLAC's headquarters are there, Synovus Bank, TSYS, Panasonic Energy of America, W.C. Bradley (Char-Broil, Badlands, Lamplight)

@thesharinganknight9859 9 месяцев назад

You might as well combine Macon and Atlanta‘s Metro in 15 years; it’s only separated by on county (Monroe) and later Athens may swallowed up by the A as well. Atlanta is just that GUY

@leonation89 9 месяцев назад

What is Harris County GA like?

@steinravnik8692 9 месяцев назад

@@leonation89 Suburbs of Columbus.

@JimRPickens 9 месяцев назад

@@leonation89 I live in Harris County Georgia and it is growing quickly, most who live here do not like that at all. Most who live here go to Columbus and Lagrange to enjoy restaurants, shopping etc then escape back to the rural isolated county to live. Law enforcement in Harris County is no nonsense and no tolerance for any breaches of the law however slight. Many who are moving here now are very well off and can afford very expensive houses so the property values have increased as development has boomed. Most places have county water but you probably will have to have a septic tack system in most older homes. Out of all the counties bordering Columbus, Harris County is the most financially well off and most populated.

@shvdfw 10 месяцев назад

@therealmccoy2004 10 месяцев назад

I think the problem with Shreveport is that dallas is 2 hours away.. Lotta folks flocked there

@winnon992 9 месяцев назад

The main problem is with Shreveport all the manufacturers have moved mostly to the Far East, China, Singapore ext. Those were high paying jobs. A T&T, Libby Glass and many others. Also a lot of small companies. Also, Our democrat govoner added tax’s to the Oil Field, shut it down. Oil field was doing good in Texas and other states till Biden started his War on follis fuels. Also the Governor cut the tax breaks on the movie industry. They just Moved where they could get the breaks. I guess he forgets the sales taxes the state would get from this industry and workers. And payroll taxes ! The whole State deserves better management ! All you have now is tax and spend democrats and some Rhinos running people off . Companies too !

@javionriley8739 9 месяцев назад

Running to another city will not solve the problem! Stay & make it better! People used to say the same thing about Atlanta , Charlotte NC, Durham,Greensboro, Columbia South Carolina back in the day!! Now those black southern states/city are prime hot locations thanks to the progressive black political, democrat leadership

@shvdfw 9 месяцев назад

@@therealmccoy2004 yeah there are tons of Shreveport people in DFW now. However, the COL for DFW is getting really high especially if you want to live anywhere decent which could be a plus for Shreveport to draw some people back. Just need to continue the economic development and draw some decent jobs.

@shvdfw 9 месяцев назад

@@winnon992 yeah the state does no favors in helping out the business climate of Shreveport. It is amazing that the south has been booming with development and population and yet Louisiana is losing population. When’s the last time there was a construction crane in any Louisiana city besides NOLA maybe having 1? The state legislature is too focused on the culture wars versus actually doing stuff to improve the state. And they will for us to wonder why people leave until the state has no one left.

@ace20016 10 месяцев назад

I’m surprised Columbus, GA made the list. I figure it was growing like Savannah and Augusta.

@highlymedicated2438 10 месяцев назад

I was thinking the same thing. I mean even the census said it was growing

@ChrisJohnson-vk1bp 10 месяцев назад

I’m surprised too. I was just there last month. A lot of building going on downtown.

@donkeysaurusrex7881 10 месяцев назад

Savannah is a dump. Give me Columbus any day.

@epicsnake21 7 месяцев назад

I've visited Trenton Transit Center before and it definitely reflects the declining nature of the Trenton metro area. Officers at the station told me that at night it get extremely dangerous there, which as someone who has been stuck there at night before is definitely true. But as a place along the Northeast Corridor I can only wish the area the best and hope they turn a corner soon.

@ChadSimplicio 10 месяцев назад

What West Virginia is experiencing is also California too, without the high cost of living. West Virginis need to think of something new, instead of restarting the coal mines.

@brianarbenz7206 6 месяцев назад

Check Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Dayton, and Pittsburgh and you'll find quite a few residents there who are from West Virginia. They may add up to more than the whole populations of Charleston and Huntington. It seems more common for people to use the word _from_ in identifying as West Virginians than _in._

@patrickhenry4742 10 месяцев назад

I always love fresh mileage mike

@picklerick_404 9 месяцев назад

When i drive to north carolina, i always go through charleston wv, and this video is pretty accurate.

@godozo 10 месяцев назад

I wonder how other college towns are doing population-wise. With college attendance peaking or declining, I can't help but wonder whether that's affecting the population of college towns.

@Rad69Lee 10 месяцев назад

Madison's doing just fine.

@morewi 9 месяцев назад

@@Rad69Leewow the state capital isn't in decline. What a surprise

@lray1948 9 месяцев назад

@@morewi Jackson MS and Charleston WV are state capitals and are both in decline

@morewi 9 месяцев назад

@@lray1948 both states are in decline so I'm not surprised

@Rad69Lee 9 месяцев назад

@@morewi I mean, d.c. lost population for quite a while and that's the national capital. Jackson lost population.

@stephenbrand5661 10 месяцев назад

Michigan has lost seats in the US House of Representatives after every census since 1980, when it had 19 of them. Now it only has 13 seats.

@AC-qx7eg 10 месяцев назад

the population of Michigan has stayed around 9-10 million since 1980 and still remains at 10 million, so idk what you’re getting at here haha

@stephenbrand5661 10 месяцев назад

@AC-qx7eg I'm getting at the fact that losing a congressional seat after the census isn't something new for Michigan , it's been happening every ten years since 1980.

@AC-qx7eg 10 месяцев назад

@@stephenbrand5661 how does it lose a seat if the population is stagnant

@stephenbrand5661 10 месяцев назад

@AC-qx7eg Because the rest of the country kept growing. The US had 226 million people in 1980, now it has almost 340 million.

@ryanvandy1615 10 месяцев назад

@@AC-qx7egbecause other states are growing, snatching up seats from Michigan.

@ItalianCountryball11 10 месяцев назад

As a Louisianan, I’m not surprised that Shreveport is on this list.

@user-hd7vl5kw9c 9 месяцев назад

It's only a reflection of the rest of the state. Louisiana ranks 50th in so many things, nobody in their right mind would move here. I made up a new nickname for Louisiana: Last Place Louie.

@JayJay-lc5qq 8 месяцев назад

Damn, but I love Mike's shows! They fit right in with my fascination of Interstate highways and history.

@hannibalsolveig2758 10 месяцев назад

“…but on the bright side, you won’t have to worry about traffic congestion if you move here” WVDOT Construction Plans: hold my beer

@ahf9281 10 месяцев назад

I was born and raised in Columbus, GA and almost everyone young who gets a college degree doesn’t stay around. And the #1 place they move to is by far Atlanta since it isn’t far and offers way more opportunities for high paying, white collar careers

@rchot84 9 месяцев назад

Trenton Resident here. I believe the census doesn't take into account immigrants or undocumented people. All the neighborhoods in Trenton have gained citizens. Houses that have been vacant for a decade are being fixed and lived in. Im willing to go as far as saying Trenton probably gained around 3 to 5 percent, but that's just the city. I am not sure about the townships.

@HistoryRepeats101 9 месяцев назад

A good friend who was born & raised in MI, now retired refuse to believe that the state is losing people as well as industry. We both worked in the automotive sector which is now struggling. Glad I left in 2002, 10 years in Chicago left 10 years ago and now in Dallas…… growing fast!

@The1ByTheSea 9 месяцев назад

In the past, a lot of people who left Michigan moved to Florida, where are they moving now to Texas ? West : Seattle ? where are people leaving Michigan and Ohio going to? Texas ?

@TiltedTripodMedia 10 месяцев назад

Ok so Ann Arbor doesn’t count on this list as it is not it’s own metro area but part of the Detroit metro. I grew up in canton right next to Ann Arbor and it’s definitely not separate from the Detroit metro.

@ConservatEV 10 месяцев назад

Meh… I live in a suburb of Ann Arbor. Technically, sure, it’s all Metro-Detroit. But I haven’t been to Detroit in years, I go to Ann Arbor almost every day (I work there) so… it’s fair to say it’s its own thing to a degree. The main issue is affordability. Lots of people and a hostility towards development leads to higher and higher rents. I think it just got to a point where people just started looking at alternatives and found them in other parts of the country. Better weather, lower rent, lower insurance, lower taxes… I can’t say I blame people for leaving. Hell, I’m considering it!

@TiltedTripodMedia 10 месяцев назад

@@ConservatEV having grown up in neighboring Canton and spending lots of time in Ann Arbor I can say it’s an awesome place but yes, I’ve noticed that prices on everything in Michigan are on the rise and it’s not an affordable place to live anymore which is sad and that’s why I live in Ohio now

@vinylcabasse 10 месяцев назад

Ann Arbor is its own MSA, it's in Detroit's CSA (which is a broader definition but wider scope than Detroit's MSA)

@brownbear3166 7 месяцев назад

My parents left Huntington for Houston when I was 1. My dad worked at the marathon plant in Kentucky and he was moved to the one in Texas City Texas.

@The1ByTheSea 10 месяцев назад

Oakland,California;Camden;New Jersey; Trenton,New Jersey ;Memphis ,Tennessee .

@elsenorgatito 9 месяцев назад

Shreveport by Turboike troubadors is an absolute jam.

@brimopm 9 месяцев назад

How about Bismark/Mandan ND? They are split between time zones, however maybe not large enough to be considered in the SMSA.

@terrell15ga 5 месяцев назад

There was one county removed from the Columbus MSA between this time frame which is the reason for its “decline” on paper. The city limit population of Columbus has grown over the past decade but the MSA has remained mostly flat.

@r.pres.4121 10 месяцев назад

West Virginia as a whole is very impoverished and backward. It is also very religiously conservative which contributes to its serious problems. While it’s largest cities like Charleston, Wheeling, Huntington, and Parkersburg are all declining urban cores with depressed economies, the rural areas of the state are in even worse shape due to their complete dependence on the dying coal mining industry, their low educational attainment, the mostly low income levels and the major lack of development. The mountainous southern counties are the worst. Rampant political corruption has also hurt West Virginia and has kept the state stuck in the past. Whether or not West Virginia can eventually turn it around and start improving remains to be seen.

@njbrock22 10 месяцев назад

wouldn't the Chattanooga Metro also be in that Time Zone Split list, as Marion Co(Jasper, South Pitt, Whitwell) are Central Time while the rest of the Metro Area are Eastern time

@DaGameGuy 10 месяцев назад

Eastern Tennessee is in the eastern time zone

@JMccovery 10 месяцев назад

@@DaGameGuy Marion County is part of Eastern Tennessee, so...

@AdamSmith-gs2dv 10 месяцев назад

@@JMccoveryYep one of the 3 Tennessee counties that use CST along with Bledsoe and Cumberland

@ladyagnes9430 9 месяцев назад

Yes, the city of Chattanooga is in the eastern time zone, but it's western suburbs are in the Central time zone. It must be confusing to make doctor & dentist appointments!

@jaredkoger8252 9 месяцев назад

@@DaGameGuy Tennessee's Grand Divisions do not evenly match the time zone boundary or metropolitan boundaries. Marion County, part of metro Chattanooga, is in East Tennessee and the Central Time Zone. Sequatchie County is also part of the metro Chattanooga, but is part of Middle Tennessee (and the Central Time Zone).

@cyrilmauras4247 10 месяцев назад

New Orleans is losing population, but its suburbs are growing populations.

@flydragon7256 10 месяцев назад

Only St, Tammany is gaining population; much of Metro New Orleans took a hard beating after Hurricane Ida and the related insurance crisis (almost $5,000 per year for home insurance)!

@kimjohnson8471 10 месяцев назад

I'm pretty good with accents. I am happy to support by fellow geography nerd Brotha!!!! ❤😂 👊 ✊️ People underestimate the importance of geography upon history.

@AdamSmith-gs2dv 10 месяцев назад

When we do the growing mid sized cities Im almost certain Knoxville will be on there

@jjcnpa 10 месяцев назад

I thought Erie, PA would be on the list. They just make the 250,000 metro threshold and were one of the biggest losers in population in the 2020 census.

@The1ByTheSea 9 месяцев назад

West Virginia needs to attract tech .It is pretty. It is a pretty state ,but need tech centers

@pghrpg4065 10 месяцев назад

Interesting that these are scattered all over the country. I think the California metros are unique among these and stand the best chance of reversing course. The cost of living (or at least of real estate) will eventually correct itself--maybe not time for 2030, but eventually (barring a natural disaster).

@olikat8 9 месяцев назад

California is handicapped by its horrible business climate and propensity to vote for the same "Leadership"- it's not alone. Oregon & Washington have exactly 0 good things to rave about

@davidm1599 9 месяцев назад

Think you're wrong about California. Such a large % of its population is now composed of either parasites, or those who make a living supporting/enabling the parasites, that the problem is beyond the possibility of correction. I don't propose to predict what will happen now, but its done.

@Zan_Chris 9 месяцев назад

It would be interesting to track how many residents were lost during Covid since so many of these places were under resourced for Covid prevention.

@dccavalier 10 месяцев назад

Recheck the graphics on Charleston’s numbers. Is it 6K loss or 3K? You said 251K but graphic has 254K

@steviethek1511 10 месяцев назад

I noticed that too.

@TheSimmieSausage 10 месяцев назад

The indianapolis metropolitan area is actually grow quite a bit

@Donh-fy1sj 8 месяцев назад

Hey mileage Mike I just moved away from Trenton a few months ago I have lived around that area 35 years when I first moved there it was very clean very nice and also very prosperous we had three count them three movie theaters a legitimate radio station banks on every corner fast food joints everywhere soul food joints everywhere and kudos to you those pictures you are showing are very recent like I said I've been living there for over 35 I even think one of those people that you were driving down the street looking at was me just paying a visit great job mileage Mike

@retiredcolonel6492 10 месяцев назад

Yak - kee-ma. Spent many, many miserable days on tank gunnery at Yakima Firing Center. I still shiver when I think of that desolate place!

@gottalovepiano5682 10 месяцев назад

You do mean Yak-kim-ma, dude?!

@nathanielsmith7090 3 месяца назад

Salinas msa is for the whole county. I think the city is growing but the most costly areas like Monterey are pricing people out.

@tommarney1561 6 месяцев назад

To answer the question, I was surprised by the cities in ultra-scenic areas of California.

@edwardrasmussen3465 10 месяцев назад

12:26 The math is off! 258,859 - 254,914 = 3945, a 1.52% loss. That would put Huntington WV at #6.

@butcheredalive 9 месяцев назад

If only there were a place with the traffic of Charleston but the niceties of Virginia…

@lowermichigan4437 10 месяцев назад

Surprised to see Ann Arbor on there. That area is getting preachy and expensive. They want to control most things you own and do

@drayne3750 10 месяцев назад

Which metro has the worst farts?

@dariusbrock2351 10 месяцев назад

Texarkana. They eat broccoli, eggs and beans on Friday and Saturday night.

@NewCastleIndiana 10 месяцев назад

So where would one live if both could work anywhere?

@johnburford7862 9 месяцев назад

I'm a Shreveport native that has moved to Florida. My entire family has left Shreveport for other places. The city is imploding, primarily due to crime and sheer ghetto-ness. It's not politically correct to say it, but it's mainly white people getting fed up with ghetto black people's nonsense and deciding to just leave for somewhere nicer and safer. The lack of economic opportunity is also a factor: almost all my high-achieving high school friends never moved back after graduation.

@paulbrower 2 месяца назад

Shreveport....in Dallas it is a nine-letter crossword clue for "mistake" and "Don't go there". I lived in Dallas for fourteen years and never went there, in part as a warning from people from northwestern Louisiana. My guess is that lots of people with any competence at all head as quickly as possible for Greater Dallas.

@presidenthonor 10 месяцев назад

You should visit my home Puerto Rico sometime and make a video on it. Maybe comparing traffic and landmarks to the states. It is a beautiful country, and it has lots to offer but life is really difficult (hence the dramatic population decline). Anyways great video! Cheers

@dawnreneegmail 10 месяцев назад

Friends are inviting me to visit, would like to devote my suitcase space to essentials tough to get there; readers(eye glasses) for the elderly? Toothbrushes & paste? School supplies? Feminine products? It's just me but what I think is best and what would really be best I suggestions please.

@presidenthonor 10 месяцев назад

@@dawnreneegmail we have Walmarts, Walgreens and CVSs 😁 Puerto Rico is a US territory and in many regards it’ll feel very similar. Take your usual essentials you take on a common trip around the US but you won’t find anything particularly hard to find.

@royand04 10 месяцев назад

I had a work assignment in PR. Was there for several months and got a chance to see a lot of it. Beautiful place, but some obvious problems. Best of luck to Puerto Rico!

@williamerazo3921 10 месяцев назад

I believe it’s part of the interstate network lol 😂

@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 9 месяцев назад

I left Columbus, Ga in 1975 and never looked back...

@markweaver1012 9 месяцев назад

Ann Arbor's a weird entry on this list -- there is a lot of new development going on both in the city and the surrounding townships, and constant complaints about high housing prices and rents. At the same time, the University of Michigan has had a growing student population. I'm not sure what is the source of the estimated population loss, but it's hard to square with all of the new residential construction. And there definitely aren't a bunch of houses and apartments units sitting empty.

@rubbishrabble 9 месяцев назад

Triple the city county ratio with 372258 in Washtenaw County and only 123851 Ann Arbor. The Washtenaw County even grew at the national average in Ann Arbor declining decennial of 2010. The main idea is precise neighborhoods grow in both Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan Dutch American.

@clydedoris5002 8 месяцев назад

I'd argue all that growth makes the area worse more money also means more problems for everyday citizens

@nothat0therguy992 3 месяца назад

New residential development around the area is possibly due to playing catch up because Ann Arbor has had a significant housing shortage for many years. And in general there is a housing shortage across the state

@markweaver1012 3 месяца назад

@@nothat0therguy992 The only way Ann Arbor is losing population while adding housing units is if household size is shrinking faster than new units are being built (and this is possible -- the number of kids in the school district has peaked and started to decline). But a housing shortage in Michigan generally? Nah. There's a shortage of *inventory* because few people want to sell and give up their 3% mortgages, but that's not the same thing as a housing shortage.

@dwjoseph59 10 месяцев назад

Everytime i hear peoria, illinois, all i can think of is: I WAS BORN..IN..PEOH..RAH....ILLINOIS 😅😅😂😂👍👍!! #MUDBONE #THE LEGEND RICHARD PRYOR

@tobygoodguy4032 9 месяцев назад

WV with its comparatively lower cost of living to other Northeastern states might be a sleeper. Many retirees with coin in their ETF accounts should consider it as the FL/Southeast alternative. However, the state has to commit to a first class medical infrastructure that nor'easterners are accustomed to. (All those potential seniors could spread some of that cheddar on crackers ) 🤠

@happycompy 7 месяцев назад

Well said, especially on the healthcare infrastructure bit. That's crucial.

@nylesprint 9 месяцев назад

Lived in Trenton for less than a year and ....yea.... Not really into it. Loved Hamilton though, it was fairly quiet in the mid 2000s

@JamesR1986 10 месяцев назад

Truthfully the main problem with West Virginia is that it's geography is trash. When talk about living in mountainous states, they mean living in the valleys and plateaus adjacent to those mountains. Driving through the state is like driving through a roller coaster. It lacks the scenic vistas of nearby Shenandoah/blue ridge parkway. And it's too far south to be a great skiing state.

@dylanattix2765 10 месяцев назад

Don't forget that West Virginia only exists because it hastily sawed itself off of Virginia when the latter seceded from the union during the Civil War. Truthfully, they'd be best off surrendering their statehood and merging with Ohio. That way, they have access to Ohio's far stronger and more diversified economy. For an added bonus, Ohio can now claim it has mountains. And if we want to keep 50 states, then just promote Puerto Rico, carve out Jefferson, etc.

@Michael1966W 10 месяцев назад

I have friends in Michigan who can’t wait to leave. They hate it there

@jimoconnor6382 10 месяцев назад

I love Oxnard, Go Seabees!!!

@SweeneyJeffreyJ 9 месяцев назад

I bet Ann Arbor will recover, it’s got potential.

@jamiesweitzer8469 10 месяцев назад

The Charleston stat should be a 2 in the thousandths spot of the net loss stat, not a 4!

@AdaptiveApeHybrid 10 месяцев назад

Yeet yeet Milage Mike posted🤌

@michaelk4295 6 месяцев назад

Russell County, Alabama may be on central time like the rest of the state, but Phenix City, a conurbation with Columbus across the Chatahoochee, is actually on eastern time like Columbus, making it the only part of AL not on central time. Phenix City is also the only place in the state where martial law has been declared, back in the 50s, when it was widely known as “the wickedest city in America” and the organized crime/local government assassinated a state attorney general candidate.

@dnuts4104 9 месяцев назад

I was really expecting to see St Louis on this list.

@evanrozsa 9 месяцев назад

Not mid size.

@dnuts4104 9 месяцев назад

@@evanrozsa seems midsize to me St. Louis proper only has a population of just under 300k. Where as Chicago proper is 2.7 million. So I guess I was confused.

@brianboggs7455 9 месяцев назад

The Greater St. Louis Metro is listed at around 2.8 million, and growing.

@evanrozsa 9 месяцев назад

@@dnuts4104 You ever visited?

@dnuts4104 9 месяцев назад

@@evanrozsa why yes dumb ass I live in KC MO. Have you been there lately it use to be the largest city in Missouri but now my City is.

@psychiatry-is-eugenics 9 месяцев назад

so Why ?

@brianarbenz1329 10 месяцев назад

The Huntington, W. Va. mayor in his State of the City address about 20 years ago called for prayers by residents that the city turn its fortunes around. No new strategies to diversify the economy, or bring down the addiction problems, or to harness the state's universities to produce research-based industries. Just pray. That tells you why the city and state are in freefall. The leaders in West Virginia and most of Kentucky don't grasp that more modern social and economic policies are even possible, much less have any ideas for them. Bible belt thinking says do whatever the coal or tobacco kingpins want done and blame the poorest for their suffering.

@The1ByTheSea 9 месяцев назад

The state of Michigan as a whole is in a deep hole 😀

@The1ByTheSea 9 месяцев назад

starting with state politics ,all the way down to city politics .Sucks !

@clydedoris5002 8 месяцев назад

Sometimes staying in a poorer area is better first off it wont get built up second some places once they get money make bad decisions and make an area worse my hometown is a huge example

@davidlittle4971 9 месяцев назад

I hope one day to ,escape from hell hole state Michigan 🙁🙁🙁

@angusb99 9 месяцев назад

Surprised that New England cities never seem to make the list. Seems like a constant exodus around here to Colorado, California, Florida

@whytfdoesnooneloveme 9 месяцев назад

colorado fucking sucks if you're not outdoorsy and don't like to talk shit behind peoples' backs

@Lucas-up6ww 10 месяцев назад

Kalamazoo

@The1ByTheSea 9 месяцев назад

The second generation Asians are leaving California to Austin,Denver,Boulder ,Orlando ,Raleigh/Durham,Charlotte ,and the cities of Alabama and Georgia : Augusta,Macon,Rome, Valdosta. and Jacksonville,Florida and Madison,Wisconsin and Minneapolis,Minnesota .Also new comer Asians are not settling in California anymore ,but rather in the cities mentioned .

@cumulus1234 9 месяцев назад

I am seeing more Asians and people of Indian and Pakistani descent in Ohio.

@The1ByTheSea 9 месяцев назад

@@cumulus1234 true, there are more Asians : Middle Eastern,Indians ,Chinese all over the North . Ohio, Detroit, etc ,even places where there were none to little

@dvferyance 10 месяцев назад

I thought Rockford was in bigger decline than Peoria.

@user-hd7vl5kw9c 23 дня назад

Shreveport has lost thousands of jobs since 1985. Manufacturing closing or relocating plants overseas and the oil bust, It's sad the city had a bright future at one time but for the past 30 years has depended on gambling. When every other state builds casinos, it puts a dent in our tourist and gambling trade. That place just can't win. There are advantages to living there over South Louisiana such as hurricane problems and a more seasonal climate. Not perfect, but I assure you it is drier and less rain.

@SonnyBubba 6 месяцев назад

11 Oxnard CA 10 Salinas CA 9 Columbus GA 8 Peoria IL 7 Jackson MS 6 Huntington WV 5 Ann Arbor MI 4 Trenton NJ 3 Shreveport LA 2 Santa Cruz CA 1 Charleston WV Lack of jobs, brain drain, rising crime, and in CA’s case, high costs.

@guitarman394 9 месяцев назад

How much of this is attributable to the pandemic?

@DemocratsAreDemonrats 10 месяцев назад

Probably Getting rid of the drug would help. Also getting rid of state taxes.

@dskywalker3397 9 месяцев назад

Yah-key-ma?

@stevepax2809 9 месяцев назад

Why Jackson MS? Fire ants

@gottalovepiano5682 10 месяцев назад

0:31 Yakima, WA Yakima is pronounced Yak-kim-ma. Think of the animal, yak, when pronouncing it. Shout out to YVCC wrestling alumni! May the Lord bless you, wherever you are!

@josephcontreras3988 9 месяцев назад

The Jersey shore is not growing because of the gentrification real rich people in New York City and wherever are buying a home on the Jersey shore as a second home leaving it empty because from a tax standpoint it's better and using it during the summertime there's no more mad rush down the parkway on Friday night and if you see the prices of the homes close to the water they're millions of dollars so that's why the Jersey shore is losing people Trenton and Philly they got their own problems.

@captnmike597 9 месяцев назад

You over-simplify when you state that places in West Virginia need to be more "business friendly". Of course a respect for basic economics is often lacking in many city governments but I've seen many locations that were "business friendly" make the quality of life in their cities so miserable that they were doomed never to attract a healthy tax base.

@happycompy 7 месяцев назад

Underrated comment

@Jnicks01 10 месяцев назад

Business friendly cities still equal higher taxes for the tax payers because the cities are allowing the businesses to pay little to no taxes on their properties

@olikat8 9 месяцев назад

Yes, businesses closing & leaving are a boon to the taxpayers citizens. Who needs jobs-

@Jnicks01 7 месяцев назад

@@olikat8 they’re laying massive amounts of people off right now in Georgia so they still don’t have jobs

@olikat8 7 месяцев назад

@@Jnicks01 the only area in Georgia I would ever consider is Savannah. Atlanta is a mess, most of the state is "Meh"- SC is better and NC buries both. From Seattle area and that whole place could slide into the Puget Sound. Talk about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs...

@Jnicks01 7 месяцев назад

@@olikat8 I agree

@happycompy 7 месяцев назад

Good point

@kfergus3662 9 месяцев назад

You forgot West Virginia

@williamerazo3921 10 месяцев назад

2020 census was undercounted because of the pandemic

@subtropicalken1362 10 месяцев назад

People in Michigan are leaving for New Jersey!?!? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@JimAllen-Persona 10 месяцев назад

My thought exactly… only thing I can think is jobs.

@SuperSirianRigel 10 месяцев назад

Did you notice your error in that growing metro video I pointed out? Louisville was supposed to be No. 1. Not Austin.

@MileageMike485 10 месяцев назад

Louisville lost population actually. Someone edited the Wikipedia page but the link to the actual Census data shows the loss. Check it out.

@SuperSirianRigel 10 месяцев назад

@@MileageMike485 Whaaat? Yeah I just looked at Wikipedia. I guess that's why when it came time to do a research paper my old english professors would always say, "Wikipedia is Not a source!" 😂

@toddbrown7142 10 месяцев назад

Louisville is a dump. Glad I live far away from it.

@ztl2505 10 месяцев назад

The California cities have the best hope I think. People will always desire the weather and the beautiful scenery. The cost of living is a difficult problem but still easier to fix than some of the other cities on here that need to undo decades of decline and completely revamp their economy.

@marktwaine9344 10 месяцев назад

california is a sh!t hole and getting worse...

@retiredcolonel6492 10 месяцев назад

I’d rather live in a tent in the Blue Ridge here in NC than in a mansion in Hollywood. It’s not just economy it’s: crime, corrupt politicians, anti-Christian bigotry, pedastry, pedophilia, unfriendly people, too much traffic, earthquakes, no water (it’s a desert), etc…

@codysparks1454 9 месяцев назад

Bruh did you just pronounce Yakima, WA as Ya-KEE-ma?

@jimspies2775 10 месяцев назад

Charleston, according to Wiki, had a 2.68% loss, but your math there is wrong. 258859 to 254914 is only 3945, not 6945. Wiki shows that 2022 population as 251914, I think that's where your error was. The population loss is correct, you just have the wrong 2022 population.