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speaking of pittsburgh
Topic Started: May 18 2008, 11:19 PM (237 Views)
bachophile
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what the hell is going on, either u people are getting sicker or making do with less nookie. either way, it aint good.
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Dewey
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It just means that people who are born in those tan areas grow up, move, and have kids in one of those blue areas. :whistle:
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Allegheny County (the greater Pittsburgh area) has the second-highest amount of senior citizens in America (first is Florida).

The industrial era (1930-1970??) attracted lots of people to the area, I guess, and it's so lovely here ( :gum: ) that they stay, even though the industry did not. While many people moved away to find other jobs, others were attached to their homes and neighbors, and stuck around. We also have some of the most affordable housing in the country.

Our biggest employers now are universities (Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University) and the medical centers. We're known for our organ transplants, especically.

Driving is a challenge in this area. Chances are 1 in 2 that the car in front of you is an SUV being driven by a teenager or a Buick with a gray-haired man in a fedora barely visible over the dash board behind the wheel. Stay alert, :o , we're either young families or really old here.

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May 19 2008, 03:54 AM
It just means that people who are born in those tan areas grow up, move, and have kids in one of those blue areas. :whistle:

That's what I was thinking too.
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6.6 billion "little miracles." ENOUGH, already!!!
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Note the blue area above Pittsburgh, though, that is blue. That is actually considered Pittsburgh, since many of those people commute there. Construction there is fast and furious, so our population growth is there, rather than along the Monogahela River (southwest of the city), where the mills were. That's where the seniors live and die.
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big al
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Interesting map. You can see the small towns dying away across the Great Plains as well as the Appalachian mill and mine towns emptying out. I wonder what's with that great swath across southern Nevada. I suppose one large patch out there could be a single county, but it looks like a buffalo graveyard where the old animals go to die.

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May 19 2008, 04:54 AM
Interesting map. You can see the small towns dying away across the Great Plains as well as the Appalachian mill and mine towns emptying out. I wonder what's with that great swath across southern Nevada. I suppose one large patch out there could be a single county, but it looks like a buffalo graveyard where the old animals go to die.

Big Al

Cities and towns are mortal too, it seems.
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Expressed in net gains and losses, the Penn State study found that some 29,368 adults between the ages of 20 and 29 went elsewhere during the 1999-2001 period. The average exodus from 1995 through 2001 showed the same general pattern, with a high of 39,425 and a low of 23,578, according to the study.

"The most striking net migration losses continue to be in the young adult age group, 20-29," the authors of the study wrote.

"The state also had an estimated net migration loss of another 14,685 youth ages 10-19, primarily 18 and 19 year olds," according to the study.

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Presumably Alaska's birth rate is so high as there's very little else to do for 11 months of the year.
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May 19 2008, 05:28 AM
Presumably Alaska's birth rate is so high as there's very little else to do for 11 months of the year.

That, and it helps to set your spawn to task against 4-foot-high drifts in the driveway, instead of breaking your own back out there.
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People don't die in Alaska. They just get frozen in some kind of hibernation/suspended animation.
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No. They just get carried off by hella Mothra-lookin' mosquitos.
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BTW, isn't anyone going to comment on the Penguins that live here?
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Dewey
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^_^

BTW, just got back from there. I've got a final on Wednesday, then email a paper on the 27th, and I'm done for the year. Woo hoo!
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Congratulations, Dewey! :thumb:
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