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Originally Posted by pj3000
Population loss does not equal decline.
Pittsburgh is the best it’s ever been. Pretty damn sure the same holds true for Cleveland and Buffalo.
These cities in their supposed “heydays” were putrid hell holes.
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But that was the case for pretty much every single corner of the world, not only on "declining metro areas". The thing is they were relatively (and in many cases absolute) bigger and had much more influence nation and worldwide.
Another reason to look at them, we're about to leave a 200-year period where population growth was insane to enter a age where population decline will be the rule everywhere. Looking to those metro areas, their challenges, their dynamics will help us to speculate about what happen with other metro areas start to decline as well.