Current city: 382,000. Town in which I grew up closest to: 158. Let's just say I'm grateful as hell to not know every single person in my town anymore.
We went from 320,000 to 270,000 in 30 years. The auto business crashed and thosands of jobs were lost so people moved away. High crime has driven many to the suburbs.
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Los AngelesMetropolitan Statistical Area had a population of nearly 13 million residents. Meanwhile, the larger metropolitan region's population at the 2010 census was estimated to be over 17.8 million residents, and a 2015 estimate reported a population of about 18.7 million.
Los Angeles gained 42,470 people from 2016 to 2017. That is 116 people a day for 365 days.
That might not seem like a lot, but it was enough to push the city’s population over the 4-million mark — to 4,041,707, according to a new state report.
L.A. is only 503 square miles.
And with all those people also came the pollution and the crime. The water crunch and the welfare checks. In the year I was born there was only 13 million people in the entire state of California.
Our current estimate for California's population is nearly 39.5 million. At the last official United States census carried out in 2010, the population of California was declared at 37,253,956 which made the state the most populous in the country.
After answering this question, I'm pretty sure the relocating topic is going to come to the dinner table tonight. :(
Ready? 328 We're so small, that we were actually listed on a national register of Ghost towns. I personally got it removed. lol
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at July 6, 2017 10:14 PM MDT