Delaware population reaches 1 million

[Delarage]

[link:https://www.wrde.com/news/delaware-population-breaks-one-million/article_5b5fe22e-5ab3-11ed-9e9c-133d64b50948.html|

The Bureau says that this is up from April 2020, where they placed the population around 990,000, and is up nearly 100,000 from 2010, when the population was around 898,000.


So it was not my imagination....traffic *is* worse

[True Dough]

1. Any connection to your DU screen name

Delaware + (road) rage = Delarage?

[Delarage]

11. Actually....

I'm pretty chill on the road---I always tell myself that "they might be going to the hospital to see a loved one" or something to explain obnoxious driving.

It's really a combo of Delaware and rage against the 2000 election heist---the beginning of the end, IMO. Imagine what where we'd be if Gore was elected. Maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened. The nice hybrids that GM and Ford were developing would've put them ahead of Toyota and paved the way for an almost full EV conversion by now. Solar and wind would've been promoted and our air and water would be cleaner. I have to stop now before I become depressed

[MontanaMama]

2. We hit a million people here in MT as well.

Not gonna lie…I don’t like it very much.

[Walleye]

3. All of those housing developments in southern New Castle and Kent where the watermelon fields were

[DEbluedude]

6. Sussex too.

LSD traffic is becoming a nightmare. Year round.

[Walleye]

7. I know I remember being amazed last time I went down to the beach

One year in the Hummers parade in Middletown someone was carrying a sign that said, Middletown traffic, if you didn’t live here you’d be home by now.

[DEbluedude]

9. That sounds like an interesting parade...

Mmnnnn.

[Walleye]

10. I haven't been lately I think they still have it

New Year’s morning, more or less a hangover parade, the rules are you have to make the float that morning before the parade. Lots of humor and creativity

[GreenWave]

4. What were the winning numbers of people (lotto fever type question)

Today is real quiet out. Maybe folks moved out in my neck of the woods. Some elbow room at long last.

[bullimiami]

5. Geez I've never lived in a city anywhere near that small.

Let alone a whole state.

[Walleye]

8. Yes, the whole state is one big small town. Even Wilmington is sort of a miniature city

[Delarage]

12. Driving from Wilmington to Philly

When I see it first, I think "Wilmington kind of looks like a big city" and then I get to Philly and I'm like "Nah--not quite"

Seems like most of the growth is around Middletown, but they are building all over the beach areas. All those houses and developments popping up across from Cape Henlopen High School---previously farmland--makes me sad.

[Walleye]

13. Makes me sad too, it was very productive farmland. Don't know what they're producing now