Just imagine if researchers more than 75 years ago had predicted the Massachusetts we live in today?
Predicting the future is very challenging because you never know what it will be like, but one study predicts that a number of Massachusetts communities could resemble ghost towns by the year 2100.
Population Decline In The United States
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that half of the cities in the United States will face some form of population decline in the near future. The study was published in Nature.
The biggest winners in Massachusetts in terms of population growth are spread across the state, including northern Boston-area communities of Watertown, Malden, Somerville, and Cambridge, which are all set to see their populations grow by 63% each, according to the research…