America used to have dense bustling cities
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They should have never closed the steel mills.
Wouldn’t have impacted cities, those created small townships, the right way to do it. Create small townships where everyone knows everyone and holds eachother accountable. Cities were the worst thing to happen to humanity.
"Wouldn’t have impacted cities."
It would have impacted Pittsburgh, bigly.
"Cities were the worst thing to happen to humanity."
No argument on that one.
I'm referring specifically to McKeesport, the city shown in the photos. It's just south of Pittsburgh. Closing down the steel industry absolutely impacted the city in a major way.
Destroyed Youngstown, OH, too. Of course the whole city council and mayor are Democrats now and we're kind of doomed to our fate until someone with balls runs and shakes things up.
You cannot possibly fuck things up as bad as it is here unless it's intentional. Terrible schools, terrible crime rate, terrible roads. You fix those things and businesses would actually want to come here
There's no excuse for a university town to be this messed up. If it were a nice place to live, you'd be able to keep those college graduates here, but they run as far away as physically possible because of the situation here right now