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Your description is what happend to Atlanta almost exactly.
Atlanta is percieved as a cool city and it had a booming economy years ago. People flocked to the city, but kept flocking when the economy there went in the toilet. People never stopped moving to the city.
Thats a huge reason why Atlanta's economy and unemployment rate are not as good. People just kept moving to Atlanta.
One thing to also remember is that Atlanta and Charlotte were "cool" and "hip" in the late '90s and early 2000s. That was before sunbelt and auto-centrism became dirty words. The sustainable (walkable) growth and new urbanism craze is a relatively new fad associated with Millennials. It really seemed to take off in the mid-to-late '00s and accelerated after the recession hit.
It's a pet peeve. Seriously, how do you misspell Fort Worth? And why is it that common? I just don't get it.
you aint kidding brother. and I must state again that fort worth is NOT dallas. the people that are moving to fort worth are mostly working in fort worth and not driving to dallas.
to those outside of this area, it is truly considered a slap in the face to bundle us together. if you didn't know that before, you do now. if you did know that before, you need to start being a bit more respectful.
I think that if you can't have fun in either a "liberal" or a "conservative" city regardless of your political or social beliefs, then you're too wrapped up in your own head. I've met MANY ultra conservative tourists (some from my own family) in Boston who had a blast while visiting. Would they move here? Not in 100 million years. However, they had a ton of fun while they visited.
On the same token, I've enjoyed my trips to "conservative" cities like Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, etc. (I'm pretty liberal). I met a lot of people who were very different from me and did things I wouldn't ever get to do at home. Even little things like sitting in a gas station near downtown Dallas on the tailgate of a truck eating gas station tacos (not the freezer type... but authentic tacos from a real tacos stand in the station) and drinking a tallboy watching alpacas (or something like that) walk around a field behind me. You don't have to overhaul your own beliefs in order to enjoy visiting a different type of city. But it is good to humanize and put into perspective the people that see things differently or have different beliefs than you. Part of the reason these little debates we have get so petty is that too many people are too closed off to even attempt to see how someone could see things differently. It's much easier to call them "idiots" and move on.
Worse than being very liberal or very conservative is being close minded. If you can't have fun in a major city that leans in the opposite direction of your political stance, then the problem is you. Not the city.
Best post I've read all thread. I wish everyone had your attitude.
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