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Still think Austin should be in the poll. Went from sleepy little college, hippie, government town to a corporate feeling place.
Agreed that the poll is a bit boring. OP only included select cliche large metros, when it's the smaller metro's that have changed the most pound for pound. Places like Greenville, Madison, Omaha, Salt Lake, and Grand Rapids are unrecognizable from 30 years ago.
I'd say Nashville, Austin, Charlotte and the Triangle have changed the most if you look at it from a ratio standpoint.
Agreed that the poll is a bit boring. OP only included select cliche large metros, when it's the smaller metro's that have changed the most pound for pound. Places like Greenville, Madison, Omaha, Salt Lake, and Grand Rapids are unrecognizable from 30 years ago.
I'd say Nashville, Austin, Charlotte and the Triangle have changed the most if you look at it from a ratio standpoint.
Repped and agreed. NYC, LA, LV, Chicago, etc have basically become larger, more developed versions of what they are.
A place like Austin has really changed. I'm not familiar enough with the other three to know. But the culture shift in Austin is pretty big.
Demographically and culturally in your opinion. And maybe not even looking at stats just what from your POV IRL. You'll here a lot of folks that have been around awhile talk about a ton of changes X area has been through. I think 50, 60 years ago it would probably would have been a rust belt or NYC/Chicago/Miami answer but more recently it seems like it would be a sunbelt answer.
It used to be a pleasure an absolute pleasure to go into downtown Portland hit the shops, restaurants, movie theaters and arcades even, and just walk along the sidewalk down to pioneer square enjoy listening to speeches done by various people (I was there when Jimmy Carter was running for president before it became pioneer square)
Nordstrom JCPenney various small shops and some decent pawn shops too. No bars covering any Windows everybody enjoying themselves being polite now if I was to go down there I'd want a security guard fully armed with an AR-15 if I went down there. I used to travel to church off Foster road exit and then come back on Lombard I only thought this kind of garbage happened on skid row in LA.
It is to weep, for once a beautiful city has now become a toilet bowl.
Oh and recently the city council has either passed or planned to pass lowering the city tax on businesses like supposedly that's going to help them stay when they're losing probably 10 times that amount of money every month to retail theft I don't think that's going to work out too well.
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