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Originally Posted by photoLith
Beaumonts downtown is a little more lively but also vastly destroyed and abandoned too. Not near as bad as Port Arthur, but its pretty bad. I dont really know why Port Arthurs downtown is completely abandoned though, the city at its peak in population was in the 60s at 63,000 people, now its at 54,o0o so its lost population but its still got a pretty fair amount of people living there. But, its on a downward slope, losing roughly 6 percent of its population every decade since the 70s. Beaumont however is gaining in population but the people that live in both Port Arthur and Beaumont arent exactly urban enthusiasts so the suburban mentality is still alive and well in southeast Texas; therefor their downtowns get abandoned. East Texas is still very much stuck in the 50s.
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However, Tyler and Longview are in East Texas and are very nice, busy, well maintained cities.
Oh...this thread was about Cairo, IL. Almost forgot.
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