Cities that have changed the least in the past few decades? (transplants, 2013)

[JeffSanDimas]

No place exists preserved in Amber, some places have change so much in so little time. I mean look at my hometown Los Angeles the same neighborhood where the valley girls lived in 1995 or something are now filled up with illegals and gangbangers and other areas that were once terrible ghettos are now havens for hipster types. In New York old-school neighborhoods filled with Italians are now filled with Chinese or Latin American immigrants, and San Francisco has gone from a quirky hippie town to a high tech Mecca filled with frat bro types paying $5000 to share a studio apartment.


In your opinion, which city has changed the least since 1990? Or places change, and I know that but the keyword is the least.


I'm not talking about some small town in the Great Plains but I mean city in the top 20 largest cities in the USA.

Which has experienced the least gentrification? The least mass immigration? The least flood of transplants following up a new booming industry? Etc etc.


Not asking for a place to live I'm just asking what in your opinion is the city that changed the least.


I'm not expecting people to still be dressed like 30 years ago or like the same music obviously because fads and things like that do change and we all have access to TV radio and the Internet. But what place would someone who hasn't been there in a long while visit and not say "What the heck happened?"

[hipcat]

I'd say Philly and Boston. Those two cities haven't changed that much in demographics in the last 20 years.

[Port Pitt Ash]

Pittsburgh. At least over the ten years I was there off and on. A neighborhood changes here or there, but for the most part it has stayed the same.

[steeps]

Originally Posted by Port Pitt Ash

Pittsburgh. At least over the ten years I was there off and on. A neighborhood changes here or there, but for the most part it has stayed the same.

Yes I would say ....Pittsburgh too. It kept a larger % of its White blue collar population and less radical Change of its neighborhoods by White flight and much smaller Latino influx, then most other Big Northern and Midwestern cities. But Downtown Pittsburgh? I am sure, had a lot of change?

[wpipkins2]

Originally Posted by steeps

Yes I would say ....Pittsburgh too. It kept a larger % of its White blue collar population and less radical Change of its neighborhoods by White flight and much smaller Latino influx, then most other Big Northern and Midwestern cities. But Downtown Pittsburgh? I am sure, had a lot of change?

Downtown Pittsburgh did not change much as far as skyscrapers. At street level downtown Pittsburgh has been totally transformed. Historic preservation is Pittsburgh's greatest accomplishment. The amount of historic preservation in the Penn Liberty historic district is astonishing. Especially considering that Penn Avenue was desolate, dark, and uninviting in the early 2000s. Penn Avenue now has retail and restaurants on the first floor of historic buildings with apartments above. Pittsburghs riverfront park system continues to mature as well as downtown Pittsburgh urban Parklets.

Pittsburgh is also home to some of the largest green buildings on earth. PNC Firstside Center, 3 PNC Plaza, The Tower @ PNC Plaza, BNY Mellon Client Service Center, and the new David L Lawrence Convention Center.

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

Youngstown/Warren, OH. Holy God it's so weird driving down the streets there! It's like a flashback to the 80's! It's been at least 2 decades since I last played at or have even seen a "Putt-Putt" mini-golf course, but lo and behold there's one in Warren.

[JeffSanDimas]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

Downtown Pittsburgh did not change much as far as skyscrapers. At street level downtown Pittsburgh has been totally transformed. Historic preservation is Pittsburgh's greatest accomplishment. The amount of historic preservation in the Penn Liberty historic district is astonishing. Especially considering that Penn Avenue was desolate, dark, and uninviting in the early 2000s. Penn Avenue now has retail and restaurants on the first floor of historic buildings with apartments above. Pittsburghs riverfront park system continues to mature as well as downtown Pittsburgh urban Parklets.

Pittsburgh is also home to some of the largest green buildings on earth. PNC Firstside Center, 3 PNC Plaza, The Tower @ PNC Plaza, BNY Mellon Client Service Center, and the new David L Lawrence Convention Center.

That sounds horrid

[BajanYankee]

Probably Detroit. A demographic map of the city in 1990 doesn't look all that different from a demographic map in 2010. However, Detroit appears to have some edges around the city limits that were largely White in 1990 that have almost no Whites today.

I don't agree with Philadelphia. In 1990, there were very few Hispanics in South Philadelphia with a budding Asian population. By 2013, South Philly was on the verge of seeing at least two majority Asian census tracts (they've probably gotten there by now).

[Gantz]

I'd say Rochester, NY.

[MassVt]

The Capital District in New York ( Albany, Schenectady, Troy). Very old cities, very little has changed in decades..