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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
so we only have 5 major metro areas that lost people over the last 10 years. new orleans was partially detroyed, and there must be something funny in the water of lake erie. so what's pittsburgh's excuse?
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Aside from New Orleans, all the metros that declined comprise the major cities of the eastern half the Great Lakes/Rust Belt region. Weird.
And, to revisit a point that Crawford has made many times before, how is it that Pittsburgh, despite numbers that would doom any other metro to the "dying" label in the media, has been able to parlay its population decrease into a success story?