It's like saying Pluto is a big planet. It may be true but there is a bigger one nearby that make it invisible if your map is about the biggest in the neighborhood.
Many reasons, but probably the biggest one is social shifts causing an overall degradation of city life resulting in people leaving. When the Chicago Board of Trade ended floor trading a significant amount of large finance companies moved elsewhere, some relocated to Dallas, some reduced staffing/office space and had principle officers in NYC already.
There's a lot of conversations about cities in the Midwest simply not happening, even though critical decay is occurring. St. Louis is another example of a city where they were doing very well for awhile and had a strong aerospace/telecom/manufacturing/tech sector and the city has now decayed dramatically to the point many businesses have pulled out and crime rates have skyrocketed. St Louis and Chicago are both more dangerous cities than Detroit, and all the available evidence points to violence being primarily a socioeconomic issue rather than an issue of any other factors.
If you’re looking for somewhere to invest, anywhere in the bottom of these lists will make it much harder to earn a decent ROI due to a higher taxes to government services ratio compared to places higher on the lists. Chicago unfortunately is at the bottom of both lists.
Chicago used to have extremely high industrial employment, so the general downward trend across the United States was amplified in Chicago. The population peaked in the late 1950s and has been dropping since, although the rate of decrease has been dropping as Chicago has transitioned to a very diversified economy. The north side of the city is now very stable population-wise and the downtown area has seen incredible growth (in the last 3 censuses, Chicago has seen higher downtown population growth than any other city in the US), while the south and west sides continue to struggle. These are the areas that were the most industrial.
Houston has seen tremendous growth primarily through annexation. It is now more than 3 times the geographical size of Chicago. But annexation of residential land in Texas is now far more difficult, so the geographic size growth of Houston has dramatically slowed [1]. Once all the undeveloped land is used, Houston will have to rely on densifying for population growth. Current restrictions make it unlikely to ever be as dense as NYC, Chicago or LA, but with its massive size it wouldn't need to be to attain 5 or 6 million residents. On the other hand, it is already facing growth challenges that may reduce the carrying capacity of the city [2].
I'd guess that Houston surpasses Chicago in population within 15 or 20 years, but it remains to be seen if that is going to be permanent or not.
Me too. I've been using pickup during covid but it's just one more thing missing in my life. I really don't mind browsing the aisles at 9pm listening to a podcast while I do the weekly shopping. I go to very large and dull grocery stores and they have a weird charm.
Me too - we have a large employee-owned no frills supermarket and I've been going there for 25 years. The calming, trance-like experience of picking out my items is something I don't want to miss. I like the walls of cereal, the bulk food bins and the excitement when an item moves to a new location.
Not just that, I'm surprised at all the people here who switched to a delivery service. I'm sure some of them are high-risk--and I get it--but I bet a lot are generally low-risk, and the way things are looking, grocery shopping with 6 feet of distance isn't a particularly risky activity.
We’ll see the same reaction that people had when witnessing extreme weather events: focus on the immediate problem, and refuse to engage with larger issues on the basis that “it’s too political”. For extreme weather events citizens and authorities showed an aversion to discussing “Is it climate change?”, and “How should we deal with climate change?”, etc.
I would, on balance, prefer to have a language with a smaller feature set that limits the amount of syntactic variability in the code I see. This, I believe, allows me to focus on the problem, not on the language features the person is using to solve the problem.
With Rust it always feels like there are changes and, at times it feels exhausting having to ‘keep up’. It also means that there’s high variability in the code you see in the wild.
Specific conspiracy theories aside, it’s unsurprising that a lot of people - hell, even I! - find the course of events surprising.
The man had a dubious source of income, was offered an incredibly irregular plea deal, all sorts of theories abounded about his having information on other connected people, attempted suicide in jail, was (surprisingly) taken _off_ suicide watch, and then died conveniently. Seems like quite the chain of coincidences.
Sadly.