CM,

And you're asserting that they'll all live forever ?

Population is a moving feast - people are born, people die. The rates of change of both of those can change, depending on birth control methods, women's education and ce ployment opportunities, wars, pandemics and certainly government policies.

China had a one-child policy for more than a generation, 36-37 years. It massively skewed the population towards male over-representation, which is not conducive to increasing the birth rate. As you may know, there were reports of female babies being killed and fed to pigs, etc. Regardless of their truth, it meant that the potential for China to rapidly boost its population have been, perhaps fatally, undermined.

Single children tend to have either one kid or no kids at all, they're used to being the focus in their own lives. So it will be with China. The population there may not fall rapidly yet, given that people will be living longer due to better health services. But sooner or later, after maybe one generation, they will hit that wall, and the population, like that in Europe, Japan, South Korea, the US, etc., will start to fall, without immigration continually boosting it - and, in turn, mixing it.

India may take another generation. And Africa another couple of generations again.

Joe

Why do people say 'Albury Wodonga'?

Why do people say that?
I've never been around those parts, but it sounds a bit retarded.
Is it one town or two?
Do you live in Albury or do you live in Wodonga?
They're not even in the same state.
Lets compare it with a different one.
Tweed Heads AND Coolangatta

Nobody who ever lived there ever said they came from 'Tweed Heads Coolangatta'
They said they came from Tweed Heads;
Or they said they came from Coolangatta.

What sort or weird logic do you lot have going on down there?

Armchair Critic.

Yes, my mistake, stating Albury-Wodonga, is a pretty serious thing to get upset about.

Me very sorry about saying Albury Wodonga.

AC & Chris,

Going to high school in Wagga in the fifties, there was that natural rivalry with Albury. Back in those days, I think Wodonga would have been just a little village, and Victorian besides. So of course, we just hated Albury and everything it stood for, and I suppose vice versa. Red and black, what wussy colours are they ?!

Even more reason now to despise that back-water.

Joe

I live in city of Wodonga, but prefer Albury.

Armchair Critic,

Albury-Wodonga is a twin city straddling the Murray
River. Albury on the NSW side and Wodonga
on the Victorian side - on the South bank.
For travel purposes the city is one and is a
gateway to Beechworth, Bright, and so on.

I spent a few years there studying at Charles Sturt University
and always thought of the place as one city. No big deal!