Florida population drop

[vett boy]

Holly crap I got up this am and headed north ,so didn't the Canadians.Must be they all woke up this morning and said lets be home for Easter.

 

[Coastal]

With growth like this it's just about a drop. Our gubmint is feeling the effects of not getting all those chickens they have been spending before they hatched.

One good thing that may come out of it is that we may be able to get a doctors appointment in February :rofl1:

University of Florida researchers predict the Sunshine State’s annual population growth will fall to its lowest level in 60 years.

Florida is projected to grow by only 37,000 residents annually between 2008 and 2010 — a 90 percent decline from the boom years of 2002 to 2006, said a report released March 23.

Most counties will continue to grow slowly, but 14 counties, including Seminole and Volusia counties in Central Florida, are expected to shrink.

“The collapse of the housing market and the lingering effects of what has been the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression have put a real crimp on migration,” Stan Smith, director of research at the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research, said in a release.

The state grew annually by 395,000 people between 2000 and 2006, the report said. That figure dropped to 127,000 in 2007 and 2008.

Smith also blamed job losses since employment is one of the main reasons people move to the state.

South Florida counties are hardest hit because the housing boom expansion created jobs in construction, real estate and related industries. Many workers have since lost those jobs and moved away.

Growth in the state is expected to pick up again as the economy recovers, and it will return to more normal levels over the next decade, provided the economic decline doesn’t worsen and another hurricane doesn’t hit Florida, Smith said.

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2009/03/23/daily14.html