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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by RenaudFR
Washington DC ?
DC has always been a strong location. It's always had a stable economy and even though it lost a lot of population it's metro always gained more just like Chicago and Philadelphia, and Boston have in the past.
Like what I meant was a city that economically sank like Detroit or Cleveland.
Even though each decade had cities that delivered in one way or another, my list is different as I think of cities when I believe they "arrived" or "reinvented" themselves even if they had previously "arrived" for different reasons in other decades.
60's - San Francisco (Hippy Movement - Haight-Ashbury) 70's - San Francisco (Castro), Houston (energy/oil) 80's - LA (pop culture, became #2 populated city), Dallas ("Dallas", Oil, excess), Miami ("Miami Vice", style, freestyle music even though it began in NYC, snowbirds), 90's - Atlanta (Beginning of growth boom, Olympics, CNN, Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Int'l Airport #1 in World), Seattle (Grunge Scene, Microsoft/technology companies, Starbucks), San Jose (Silicon Valley), 00's - Phoenix (tourism, growth boom, retirement, mini-LA), Las Vegas (growth boom, rebirth as upscale, hedonistic, adult destination), Portland (city planning and development model, micro-breweries), - Devastation/Rebuilding: New York City (9/11), New Orleans (Katrina)
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