First of all , I compliment you on your daily editorial. I think it was just two or three years ago that we were first offered a daily local opinion. Reprints from other papers are necessary from time to time of course but not all the time.
When you started printing your editorial each day, it felt like the Citizen had come of age, finally grown up enough to have his own opinion. I don't always agree, ask my wife about muttering at the newspaper sometimes, but pretty much all the time you think like I do and I suspect like a lot of people in this town. It's nice to read a clear article written buy an educated man who pays attention and really cares about our town. Thank you.
That being said, I don't know how you could miss (and Ben Rabidoux) something so obvious. The steady state of the population and the large number of new homes built and bought is simple to explain, I think. The children of the boomers are growing up and buying homes. The timing is just right if you ask me, it's taken a bit longer to come up with down payments in the tight times of the last twenty years or so. Kids are waiting longer to have children. I don't know if it's confidence in the economy or giving up waiting. In the last four years I am proud to say I have three lovely new grandchildren and two of my kids have purchased houses. My kids are all over thirty, and two of the babies are just past two years old. Like a lot of young people they waited almost ten years longer than we did back in the 60s.
I am sure if the census presented more detail than it gathered with the short form, we would have clear evidence that the disparity is almost entirely kids moving out of the basement and starting their lives.
Gil Self
Prince George
