On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:21 AM, List Manager wrote:
Strib's take: 4,000 fewer people in 2002 than in 2000 - the 10th biggest dip
in the nation. Local officials dispute it.
Here in Hawthorne the population loss is probably in the double digits percentage wise. Three houses on my block have sat empty and unsold for months now. Their each asking $130,000 and the newest is over 50 years old, the other two over a century old. For another $10,000 you can by a new house on the suburban fringe with a yard, lots more space, and way less crime. If you work in the suburbs anyway the commute is about the same.
The immigrants are leaving too. Those that can afford to are leaving for the inner ring suburbs or even outstate small towns. The fourplexes on my block used to be full of Mexican-Americans who went to work early in the morning and made little trouble at night. Once the drug dealers and hookers took over their corner most of them left. The one apartment building is half vacant.
Barring a more urban friendly state and national government getting elected these trends will continue. By 2010 Minneapolis will drop well below 300,000 population. Redistricting will put Minneapolis and St.Paul and a few suburbs in one district, making us politicly powerless. By 2020 Minneapolis will be the 2nd or 3rd most populous city in the state and pretty much geopolitically irrellevent.
hanging on in Hawthorne (can't afford to move),
Dyna Sluyter
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