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Originally Posted by Crawford
Windsor, to me, feels pretty healthy. That doesn't mean it doesn't have a Rust Belt economy or a working class feel, though. The downtown is in sad shape, but that isn't really a Rust Belt-specific thing.
Also, Metro Detroit, as a whole, doesn't really feel Rust Belt, at least in the traditional sense you get in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo. Too much endless McMansion sprawl and newer Sunbeltish growth. There aren't many old school giant factories and industrial landscapes just sitting around anymore, except around Zug Island.
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st. louis is kind of like this too, with a massive spooge-out of 80s-00s sprawl that goes on and on. theres areas that feel like the fringes of atlanta or nashville with one road mcmansion subdivisions hacked out of ozark ridgetops.
the eastern rustbelt doesnt seem to have this nuclear blast of the same era development to the same extent and feels older on the fringes. chicago of course does have that massive ring of “Home Improvement” era suburbia too.