Bend Population Survey

In 2012 a family of 4 moved from Madison, Alabama to Bend, Oregon. They have visited Bend, Oregon every year for 10 years. They have watched the area grow and decided they wanted to move here. The family found a home in Awbrey Glen. The area was just the right size, the streets weren't crowded with houses, and the traffic was at a minimum. But after four years they started to second guess moving to the area. Northwest Crossing (a neighborhood in Bend) started crowding both sides of the roads and removed a lot of the natural nature. Bend is currently at a population of 87,104 and growing at a rate “2-3 percent per year”. (according to bendsource.com) Which doesn't sound like a lot, but for the citizens who have lived in the small town for many years, many wish the town would stay small.

Bend is a town in central Oregon with a growing population. From 2000-2010 Bend's …show more content…
There's too many opposing viewpoints to change the rate of growth of the population. This makes some people happy, but, others disappointed in a town they love, because it's growing too much and losing some of the personality that they liked when they chose to live in Bend. While others are saddened with loving the nature part of Bend, but not having the big city feel they want. There is no clear way to make everyone happy, but, if you could make parts of Bend feel like a big city, while make others have a smaller town, and keep other parts of the town the same. Then that might just be the best way to make everyone happy. If we could find a way to make different parts of Bend feel like a small town, big city, and a medium size town, the family that moved all the way from Madison, Alabama, might be happy, and be satisfied with their choice to move here four years