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Originally Posted by sentinel
Who cares really? The population of Paris, for example has been pretty stagnant for over 15 years (if not longer). But it's still busy and vibrant and constructing new buildings like crazy to meet residential and commercial demand, so it's immaterial that the population hasn't grown/remained flat/had a net loss of a few thousand.
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Paris has grown substantially over the last 15 years, by about 150,000 residents. So not at all similar to Chicago.
And Paris is a pretty terrible comparison to Chicago, because A. The City of Paris is a tiny geography that only encompasses the city center and B. It's impossible to build anything in most parts of the city proper. It would be like if the City of Chicago were only downtown and environs, and then you banned new construction.
And Paris proper is fiendishly expensive. I don't think too many people would argue that the South and West Sides of Chicago are emptying out because they're fiendishly expensive.