Did you notice the flowering cherries and plums are starting to bloom? I’m sure you noticed these last several days with warm afternoons in the 70s right? Of course you have. Well the spring party is over for a while as we are moving into an extended period of more traditional Northwest weather, good ole rain. This is the time of year where we experience our fickle weather. Warm and sunny then cold and rainy, then sunny and so on. Sometimes we even get an April snow storm. You never know but what we do know is that Springtime is wonderful.
I was looking over some demographic reports and since the 2020 census the Metro Area has lost population, just a smidgen. Almost all of the lost population came at the expense of Portland as they shed some 30,000 residents after an extended growth period. Hmm, I wonder what is driving them away? Washington County (Beaverton-Hillsboro) was dead flat on growth, Clackamas County saw a respectable 1.8% increase, and here in Clark County we saw a very robust 5% growth over the three years after the census.
It seems like Clark County and by extension Vancouver since 2/3 of the county lives in here, is the hot spot in the metro area and single-handedly keeping the whole greater Portland-Vancouver area from a population crash.
We need to keep our city leaders on track to continue the things that have led to Vancouver pulling away from other cities in the region. I feel like some of them are going backwards and getting caught up in national nonsense rather than focusing on what municipalities are supposed to, public safety, local transportation, and local development.
Ah the Couv life; it is good.
The 'Couv' Life 