Chicago, the third largest metro area, is only expected to add 33, 000 households, a growth rate of barely 1.2%.

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While metro areas like Boston, Chicago and Miami also scored spots on our list, this year's ranking was dominated by California markets, with San Francisco leading the pack.

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As John Pletz recently laid out in Crains, Chicago already has more installed fiber optic cables than nearly any metro area in the world.

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The 2010-11 numbers show the deck chairs on the migratory titanic have stayed remarkably similar, with New York still ranking first among the 51 biggest metro areas for net migration losses, followed by Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Philadelphia.

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Pulte's Del Webb unit, for example, has built 41 of these boomer complexes--in the suburbs of Boston, New York and Chicago, among other places--and now plans to invade metro Atlanta and Minneapolis.

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The relative declines of our three largest metro areas New York, Los Angeles and especially Chicago alone tells us that.

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From 2000-09, the metropolitan areas that suffered the biggest net domestic migration losses resemble something of an urbanist dream team: New York, which saw a net outflow of a whopping 1.9 million citizens, followed by the Los Angeles metro area (-1, 337, 522), Chicago, Detroit, and, despite recent improvements, San Francisco-Oakland.

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The young woman's husband was living in Chicago, Illinois, police said, but Kanwal remained at her father's home and worked at a metro Atlanta Wal-Mart for a brief time.

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