Downtowns are back

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Originally Posted by Wigs

Buffalo, Rochester, and Birmingham have roughly the same size Metro population.

Rochester Metro is 2 times larger in area than Buffalo's.
Birmingham has a Metro Area 3.3 times larger in area than Buffalo's.
Sprawlingham!

And if Birmingham hadn't been such a corrupt and racist place, it would have 6 million people now, not Atlanta: https://www.al.com/opinion/2019/07/birmingham-and-atlanta-a-tale-of-two-cities.html