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re: Spinoff: cities that have improved in recent years
Posted on 2/22/17 at 5:57 am to SamuelClemens
Posted on 2/22/17 at 5:57 am to SamuelClemens
Columbus, Ohio. Its the fastest growing city in the Midwest and is rapidly redeveloping its urban/downtown core. Its population is booming and there is no sign of a slow down. Truly a hidden gem!
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Posted on 2/22/17 at 6:00 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I don't have experience with Denver 10+ years ago but I can't imagine it being better than it is now. It was the cleanest and calm city I've seen.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 6:04 am to RBWilliams8
Casper, WY is probably my favorite up and comer I've personally experienced. Dude bought some property and struck oil big in Wyoming. He built another hospital and pretty much a whole wing of the city. Low key turned into a great place to live but once you leave Casper there's nothing for a good ways.
Isolation without losing the essentials.
Isolation without losing the essentials.
This post was edited on 2/22/17 at 6:04 am
Posted on 2/22/17 at 6:20 am to Kafka
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Austin has improved?
Yes.
It used to be a "cool" place with no jobs.
Now it's a less authentically "cool" place with way, way more job opportunities, newer, nicer everything, and hardly any crime (because it all got priced out and moved to Pflugerville and Round Rock).
Posted on 2/22/17 at 6:25 am to Buckeye Backer
Columbus is an anomoly for sure. Typically one thinks of that entire region and sees the rusted hulks of old factories and declining populations, but Columbus is actually growing quickly, is investing a lot in improving the cityscape, and has a lot of high tech and medical jobs. It's is a hidden gem. I'd say that's true.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 6:31 am to RBWilliams8
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I don't have experience with Denver 10+ years ago but I can't imagine it being better than it is now.
It wasn't as big or as hip. It was a decently big city 20 years ago, but reasonably "blah" all around. It was more like KC with a mountain backdrop and less like a cleaner, higher altitude, non-maritime Seattle, which it is now.
This post was edited on 2/22/17 at 6:33 am
Posted on 2/22/17 at 6:32 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Detroit
Chattanooga
Chattanooga
Posted on 2/28/17 at 9:06 pm to Reservoir dawg
It's amazing what having forward-thinking leadership can do for a city. For decades it was lacking in Baton Rouge, then Kip Holden came along and things improved a great deal. Baton Rouge needs to stop trying to be like Austin, Portland, or Denver. City leaders need to look at other cities with similar population demographics, such as Birmingham, Little Rock, Columbia, and Jackson. The first three are cities that BR should strive to emulate, and the latter is what it should try at all costs not to become. Sadly, I don't have a lot of faith in Sharon Weston-Broome and her administration.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 9:23 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Recent meaning 10-20 years.
It seems like whenever a city is discussed on TD, it either "sucks" or "was better before xyz". What cities are exceptions to this?
NYC?
Chicago?
A lot of cities have improved all over the country, but the one that has probably made the biggest net jump is Pittsburgh.
Places like Nashville and Austin and Portland were just small before they grew into the places they are now.
Pittsburgh was large and a real shithole. Now it's low-key one of the coolest cities/best places to live in America.
Chicago has improved immensely over the last twenty years, but it's still very bifurcated.
On the other end of the spectrum, it seems like Milwaukee hasn't improved much, if at all.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 9:55 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Raleigh is great
Posted on 2/28/17 at 10:23 pm to Paul Allen
It is indeed.
Every big city in NC is great imo. Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville are all great
Every big city in NC is great imo. Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville are all great
Posted on 2/28/17 at 11:13 pm to TigersHuskers
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so its a clean shithole now with a murder problem
Posted on 2/28/17 at 11:48 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Austin is a tricky one.
Economically it's one of the best places in America. It has great schools, plenty of jobs, money, etc.
However, whatever small-time and local charm it had is now commercialized. Food trucks, local cuisine, underground music scene are all too big of a deal to be unique. I question the identity of Austin from that standpoint.
And many of the people living there have no idea what it was like 10-20 years ago, as they lived elsewhere lol.
Economically it's one of the best places in America. It has great schools, plenty of jobs, money, etc.
However, whatever small-time and local charm it had is now commercialized. Food trucks, local cuisine, underground music scene are all too big of a deal to be unique. I question the identity of Austin from that standpoint.
And many of the people living there have no idea what it was like 10-20 years ago, as they lived elsewhere lol.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 11:52 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
NYC
Chicago
Nashville
Austin
New Orleans
Baton Rouge (outside of traffic)
It's hard to name a city that has gotten demonstrably worse
Chicago
Nashville
Austin
New Orleans
Baton Rouge (outside of traffic)
It's hard to name a city that has gotten demonstrably worse
Posted on 3/1/17 at 12:00 am to kingbob
denver's much worse. 10 years ago, it was more like dfw but with the mountains next door. now, it's turning into an sjw-infested portland wannabe.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 12:07 am to Switzerland
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now, it's turning into an sjw-infested portland wannabe.
SJW's aren't all bad. Yes, they bring annoying political bs, but they also bring a lot of good. They fix up inner city neighborhoods converting them from ghetto wastelands to trendy, safe, tax bases. Denver has legal pot which has raised billions for their state's public schools and become a boon for their tourism industry. Millenials bring all kinds of small businesses, especially awesome restaurants. They create all kinds of trendy products and stores, as well as tech startups which produce tons of jobs. They also bring with them better local original art and music scenes. There's a give and take to the demographic which includes annoying SJW's, but there's usually a net benefit to the city as a whole.
This post was edited on 3/1/17 at 12:12 am
Posted on 3/1/17 at 12:12 am to Paul Allen
Okc for sure
Much better with bricktown
Much better with bricktown
Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:42 am to nvcowboyfan
I can tell when a person on this site has last visited Memphis by how they trash it.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 6:05 am to nvcowboyfan
I grew up outside of OKC and downtown used to be a $hit hole. There was a ballot initiative called MAPs where the city increased sales tax by $0.01 per $1. That money was used to revitalize, re-develop and rejuvenate downtown. That along with Private investment (mostly before oil crashed but there is still investment ongoing) have made the city leaps and bounds above what it used to be.
It is a great example of what great leadership and responsible, citizen consented, taxes can provide to a city. Keep in mind this is the reddest state in the union voting for more taxes. I think OKC is now on MAPS 3.
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It is a great example of what great leadership and responsible, citizen consented, taxes can provide to a city. Keep in mind this is the reddest state in the union voting for more taxes. I think OKC is now on MAPS 3.
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Posted on 3/1/17 at 6:08 am to AlonsoWDC
I lived in Memphis for a year 6 years ago. Has it changed much in that timespan? When I was there it was a shithole except for a corridor on the central east side. Memphis sucks, man. It's right up there with St. Louis, Jackson and Baltimore for "towns in America that primarily just suck and are sad and you should stay away from."
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