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The population growth around Seattle is generally of the highly-visable variety: enormous cranes downtown, insta-condos (just add water!) everywhere, that old 1960's rambler next door getting torn down and rebirthed as a triplex. It turns out, though, that King County is a laggard in terms of growth in the state of Washington. The population growth of King County, by percentage of the total state population, currently stands behind Franklin, Island, Clark, San Juan, Whatcom, Thurston and Snohomish counties.
"Franklin County?" you ask. We weren't sure where it was, either. It is the 44th fastest growing county in the nation, though. Franklin is the hot new neighborhood in the Tri-cities, despite the ongoing Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup and other potential geographic shortcomings.
Seattle gives every outward appearance of rapidly growing city, but the experts have it pegged as "being fueled less by a population boom than shifting demographics and a pent-up demand for homes," rather than a recurrance of our true population upsurge during the 90's.
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Yeah but Bush's 2nd term budget is going to slash the Handford Cleanup in freaking half. The Tri-Cities are going to turn in to a ghost town yet again. I grew up there and my dad is a scientist working on the Handford Cleanup.