Seattle grew by the largest % among the top 50 US cities 2021-22

[skysoar]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

https://apnews.com/article/census-ur...ced6f87f04e63f

Yes.how strange it is that the Census Bureau list N.Y. Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco metros all declining by 0.8 per cent each. What is the likelihood of that?

[Quixote]

DFW will likely be the next and last 9-million-something CSA, at least until the 2040 census. The cost of living in Boston being what it is and the continued decline in the number of whites likely mean modest gains at best. Greater Houston is a good 750K or so behind DFW and isn't growing at the same rate, perhaps in part due to not having an equivalent to Collin and Denton Counties where you have a huge expanse of suburbia with McMansions and corporate jobs/headquarters.

DFW, Houston, Boston, Atlanta. That's it. Even Atlanta might be a stretch because of the topography.

[urban_encounter]

Originally Posted by Crawford

. Also, SF was supposedly the poster child for worst post-pandemic urban outcomes. Tech oriented elites scattered, remote work emptied downtown, and wacky liberalism supposedly allowed bums to go buck-wild. Yet Seattle is the closest analogue to SF (West Coast techie, white-Asian, affluent, heavy remote, outdoorsy, silly expensive, very liberal, lots of homeless) and appears to have the best Census outcomes. What gives?

There’s still a lot of fallout in cities across the U.S. (world really) as workers continue to work remotely or a modified schedule. Cities will have a glut of office space not easily converted to residential places.

I thought I read somewhere that Amazon is putting a halt to their massive office building construction.

[mhays]

Amazon delayed some of the tenant improvements on some of the office buildings going up in Bellevue, and put off the groundbreaking of another building. They've halted no office building construction in the Seattle area.