Also, less than 1% of French speakers in the city

Deficit explosion for new tax cuts but gutting healthcare and environmental programs, and even the cynical capitalist in me is failing to see any long term upside here

I’m aware of the concept but there is ZERO empirical evidence of it ever working and never will be. History shows us the opposite, in fact. Degrowth is a privilege theory for people who already have everything they need.

It is not global, it is not inevitable, and it is not even desirable. It’s literally impossible to “maintain quality of life” while reducing investments. I’m sorry but this Malthusian take is bad for everyone.

Anyway, are there other factors driving pop decline? Obviously. Just interesting that anytime I try to get people to come live in STL, I always hear "but isn't it a dangerous place to live?" That clearly means something!

Coming from New York State, we were petrified to even leave our driveway if our car registration was a day late. But St Louis City drivers can go entirely without license plates on their cars for years and never get stopped until they leave the city borders.

My opinion? STL reputation is ruined by association with crime. Altho violent crime is down, the everyday quality-of-life crime is awful. You can't cross a street without nearly being hit by a sociopath in a car. Deterrence of this type of crime doesn't exist the same way it does in Nashville.

the amount of hate mail I got for this piece shocked me. drivers just fucking love killing pedestrians and they do not ever want to feel bad about it for even a second www.motor1.com/features/713...

This… is literally not anything close to true and you’re trying to delegitimize a perfectly reasonable and YIMBY-aligned policy platform because one of its proponents has different views of unrelated social issues.