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Oh please. We got our own things going on up here. No desire to visit LA in decades.
It's very true SF has their "own" thing going on, but there's no denying SF is number 2 on the West Coast, something 100 years ago it wasn't, but times have changed drastically! lol
I lived in Missouri for a few months, and St. Louis to me was the top city in Missouri. They are both nice, but St. Louis seems larger, and more prominent.
At the metro level, and historically, both statements are true.
The core city of St. Louis reflects this fact in many ways, but its north side has largely hollowed out, and as a a result the city is now the state's second most populous after Kansas City.
Truth to tell, a good chunk of central Kansas City has also hollowed out. But the emptied-out quarter remains smaller than St. Louis', and the differing fates of the two cities stem from St. Louis having cut itself off from future growth back in 1871, while Kansas City annexed its future growth from the end of World War II up through right around 1980. In addition, Kansas City has had some success rebuilding neighborhoods on some of its emptied-out land; I'm not aware of St. Louis experiencing anything similar.
The population gap between the two metropolitan areas is closing, albeit slowly. St. Louis also doesn't have a smaller existing employment hub like the college town of Lawrence, Kan., near it that its suburbs are growing towards; the ones I know of that exist, like St. Charles, Mo. and Alton and Belleville, Ill., are already part of the metro.
New to this but it looks like Birmingham to Nashville and Atlanta.
Not to put down Birmingham in any way but after reading through their forums, many there seem to feel or act like they're a threat. Pretty much calling themselves the Silicon Valley of the South and arguing about being a tech hub. Very interesting characters there who call you a bigot if you say something honest about the city.
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