Whatever I do... my population won't go above 6000 or such.   Only once one of my city got 22000 population but that was accidental I guess.   This time I planted massive amount of evergreen & seasonal trees, started taking care of garbage at the very beginning, made nice road & railway layout, put two 5*5 dirty industries in the very corner, one I-A far from the industry, used radius doubler (100% education, fire, police, edu coverage), 100% water coverage, few commerce zones scattered here and there with one big commerce zone in the center of the city...   still population stuck at 6000..   I make homes of 1*2 size.   I really think that my whole concept is wrong...   Its not that zone the land and they will come...   I saw the tutorials in omnibus and youtube but what they teach is nothing new to me... I mean I know what they are doing... Then where I am doing wrong...   I completed whole zoning and then stare at the screen and population will dance from 6000 to 6050 then back to 5080 and like that...   grrrrrrrr