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Originally Posted by Razor
I know that Duluth is a destination for cross border shopping trips, so it has that catchment area as well. Thunder Bay, etc.
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The thing about Duluth was that it was built out like a real city prior to the depression but after WWII it stagnated so the old stuff was never torn down to build autocentric post war developments or podium towers like in more prosperous American cities but it also didn't get bad enough that it was cleared by urban renewal, so most of it is still there. It is rough around the edges. It kind of reminds me of a bigger city in the '70s/'80s - bohemian but not hipster, ungentrified, unselfconsciously weird, lots of characters. The whole thing is built on a steep hillside next to a big port. It is far enough away from everywhere else that it kind of stews in its own juices culturally speaking. It feels like a little coastal city at the edge of the world.