Seattle Has a Slow-Growing Area

Turns out cloudy weather and passive-aggressive behavior will only attract people for so long. Recent data from the US Census shows that the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma metropolitan area is the slowest-growing region ~~in the whole wide country~~ of the largest 100 areas that grew last year. From 2007 to 2008, we only grew at a 1.4 percent rate. Across the mountains the Tri-Cities were attracting enough people to become the third-fastest growing area, up 3.5%. Of course from 2007 to 2008 the need for rodeo clowns greatly outweighed the need for fish tossers.

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By David in News on March 23, 2009 2:00 PM

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KevinCole509

"Rodeo clowns?" Geez... Is that really as funny as you can be? (Anyone up for guessing which pacific northwest metro has the highest number of Ph.D.s per capita in the country? And I don't mean wimpy little "make 'em up yourself and take yourself seriously" Evergreen State style degrees, either!)

Here's hoping you get some much wittier writers in the future...

Audrey

So sorry we insulted you, Kevin Cole, the world's top rodeo clown with a PhD.

Unknown user

This post's claim is, of course, wrong. Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma is not the "slowest-growing region in the whole wide country," it's simply the slowest-growing out of the top 100 growing, largest regions in the country. Or, put another way, the 100th-quickest growing large region in the country.