The 405 seem extra crowded these days? Apparently an estimated 1 million new residents have moved to Southern California (or, as the local TV news media love to call it, the "Southland") in just the past three years.
That's according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the L.A. Times reports.
So where the hell are we gonna put everybody? (I vote downtown. Consider it the futon of Los Angeles.)
Reports the Times: The current trend is a reversal of one seen a decade ago, when the Bay Area was surging and Southern California was mired in recession after the collapse of the aerospace industry.
"This is a very different set of demographics and housing than you had exactly 10 years ago," said Stephen Levy, director of the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. "Ten years ago, the region lost 1 million people, housing prices plummeted, and building actually stopped between 1990 and 1994…. The Bay Area is showing the pattern now that L.A. showed in the early '90s."
In your FACE, Bay Area! Hah!
But, uh, you want some of that population back?
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