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Booming Burbs Stop Growing

Posted by: Tim Halbur

21 November 2009 - 1:00pm

Areas like Bellevue, Washington and Coral Springs, Florida have grown by 10% or more every decade since the 1970s. Today, these suburban communities are actually losing people.

Haya El Nasser writes, "Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or more that grew by at least 10% every decade since 1970 lost population in the last two years.

Fifteen are likely to end the decade with less than a 10% gain in population, largely because of recent losses."

Full Story: Housing bust halts growing suburbs
Source: USA Today, November 20, 2009
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