There is a seemingly natural decline (and eventual renovation) of these towns that is really hard to stop.
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Replying to @crawlings13 @michaelbd and
Innovation is the aspiration of every town. Maybe it should be a kind of gritty perseverance. See Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh has a lot of federal-money magnets in education and medicine.
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That's a fair point. But those seeds were planted by thoughtful tycoons making the place a monolithic steel town.
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it's also got a fiercely (almost aggressively) loyal citizenry you don't see in other old steel towns
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Replying to @kev_jg @crawlings13 and
i'm not enough of a Marxist to think industrial history can explain all of that
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No, look, it's simply about understanding that thoughtful investment in your community is hugely valuable.
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Replying to @crawlings13 @kev_jg and
I'll take Pittsburgh's future over, say, Denver's or Atlanta's, in part because of the community based orgs.
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of those three I'd bet on Denver--but this is just based on hearsay and my brief visits to each
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I'm a native Denverite, but I just don't see it. A lot of government money but not enough genuine investment.
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I will take your word as a native over my conjecture any day
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