In the mood for nerding out on some graphs, numbers, and facts for 16 minutes or so?
I am sometimes, and this one hit me just right, just now.
Not too waffly, deep, and complicated, but not too much of a superficial skim, without enough substance either.
I think Goldilocks might have liked it!
I'm kind of interested in UK population trends, and so I thought this was a good update on the official figures regarding what's happened within the UK over the last 30 years.
It seems I was lucky, or Greater Manchester was lucky, to reverse it's decline, within a short time of me moving there, and to then go through an amazing population and economic boom, that had not stopped, in terms of rising population at least, until last year, when it went sideways and slightly down.
Otherwise it's been massive growth since around 1999. Myself and Manchester could have had things a lot worse, it could have worsened the state of decline and dereliction large parts of the city were in, when I first moved here, at some point in the 1990s,
And I could have spent a lot more time struggling to find work, and might even have decided to move somewhere else.
It seems to have been 'the place to be', on the whole, that has attracted more new residents and the most population growth over the last 25 years.