[marothisu]

I hope this wakes some people up to the fact that 99% of the media here has been misusing Census-based data for years. We can look at both Chicago and NYC as examples. Recent estimates have both losing population. While Chicago's underestimation is moderate, New York's is downright a lot.

"Everyone is leaving NYC! Everyone is leaving Chicago" - NYC's population was under estimated by something like 500,000 people. That's just crazy.

One of the most hilarious things I see is people who always wondered why such and such developer kept building things in Chicago, NYC, etc citing Census estimates. Gee, I don't know. Maybe these companies putting millions on the line in investments here who have actual local people on the ground might have a better sense of the current conditions in these areas better than a survey who sends 1% or 5% of the population a survey in the mail and extrapolates data?