my town doesn't suck

[bikeman564™]

This is not a parody. I never knew what the population was in my city over the years so this is the info on Wiki. Same now as it was in 1960 With a up/down tick in the 70s/80s.

 

[Razors Edge ★]

4 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

This is not a parody. I never knew what the population was in my city over the years so this is the info on Wiki. Same now as it was in 1960 With a up/down tick in the 70s/80s.

 

Ha! We go back to 1970.  Before that, it was a couple farms in the middle of nowhere. @Old No. 7 probably remembers.   But, basically, probably adding a few percentage points year.  

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

We moved to Virginia in 1972. Reston was under development but there was more on paper than on the ground. The Bowman Distillery was right on the W&OD at Old Reston Ave. Old man Bowman set up there as it was close to water, cornfields, and the railroad. 

[ChrisL]

My area really boomed post WW II when a nearby Army Air Base closed, the land was annexed by the city and many of the servicemen who rotated through there said damn, the weather is pretty nice in coastal SoCal…

[Bikeguy]

I just looked at the data for my town.     I never new the population either.    

When I ride my bike... about 2 miles down the road... all looks like this.

[Kzoo]

1 hour ago, bikeman564™ said:

This is not a parody.

Yes it is....... and you get a 2

 

[Razors Edge ★]

12 minutes ago, Bikeguy said:

I just looked at the data for my town.     I never new the population either.    

You're in the same weight class as @bikeman564™!  Maybe we can schedule a "friendly" between you two!

[Randomguy]

NYC has lots of people.

 

[Razors Edge ★]

7 minutes ago, Huge Gelatinous Blob said:

NYC has lots of people.

HAD.

Dude, it's so popular, no one lives there anymore. You can see that by the property and rent prices.  

[Bikeguy]

52 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

You're in the same weight class as @bikeman564™!  Maybe we can schedule a "friendly" between you two!

Not sure we are in the same weight class...   the 'local' population in our town is about the same.  But... 

The 3 state parks, the river and the town get millions of visitors a year.   Just one of the state parks gets more than 2 million visitors a year.   We have some GREAT places to eat and visit locally.  You just need to know when to go to these places to avoid the herd.  

[bikeman564™]

1 hour ago, Kzoo said:

Yes it is....... and you get a 2

 

[bikeman564™]

9 minutes ago, Bikeguy said:

We have some GREAT places to eat and visit locally. 

same

[Kzoo]

Kalamazoo…

You can clearly see that our population decline started when Elvis moved here to work at Burger King.

 

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1840	1,290		—
1850	2,507		94.3%
1860	6,070		142.1%
1870	9,181		51.3%
1880	11,937		30.0%
1890	17,853		49.6%
1900	24,404		36.7%
1910	39,437		61.6%
1920	48,487		22.9%
1930	54,786		13.0%
1940	54,097		−1.3%
1950	57,704		6.7%
1960	82,189		42.4%
1970	85,555		4.1%
1980	79,722		−6.8%
1990	80,277		0.7%
2000	76,145		−5.1%
2010	74,262		−2.5%
2020	73,598		−0.9%