Whenever demographer extraordinaire Bernard Salt starts talking (especially on the topic of smashed avocados), it is always worth listening.
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Mr Salt's fortune-telling abilities are well-established.
He combines the latest data with a deep knowledge of history to not only understand current trends, but help predict future ones, too.
This can be very useful if you are NSW's largest inland city holding ambitions to grow a population from 64,000 to 100,000 in just 19 years.
Mr Salt was in Wagga this week to assist our best and brightest formulate a plan to reach that eye-wateringly ambitious target.
One of the things Mr Salt said in his interview with our reporter Daina Oliver ahead of his keynote speech was that Wagga is "already behaving a lot like a small capital city".
This was said as a statement of fact and, if I'm reading it right, intended as something of a compliment to our fine city and its people.
Wagga has changed considerably in the past decade and has, indeed, taken on many of the characteristics of a "small capital city".
It has diversified its economy, opened up to migration and generally become a more confident player on the state and national stages.
But Wagga has also seen a rise in crime and congestion, as well as, it can be argued, the decay of a little bit of that country charm many hold so dear.
No doubt people in our community will question the "bigger is better" mentality driving this push to a population of 100,000 by 2038 - and so they should.
Growth without a plan is a blueprint for failure.
The challenge for this city's leaders is now to sell the vision to the people so they too are on the road to 100,000.
All the best for the week ahead, Ross.