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Originally Posted by Wigs
Oh indeed.
No one really (except for benp) toots Buffalo's horn on this site, so me as a Canadian that grew up with it as the closest larger Metro, I'll proudly carry that torch 
Did you even know M&T is one of the larger banks now in 2022?
Also did you know the reason HSBC became so large in USA at one time is because they bought another Buffalo based bank, Marine Midland?
The only reason Buffalo has a true skyscraper is because of Marine Midland once being a very important bank 50 years ago.
It's also kind of tongue in cheek since part of Matt's family is originally from Buffalo and one set of grandparents lived here til they passed 
Many still think Buffalo is rust belt wasteland when it's actually rebounding again, with the city gaining 17,000 residents and Erie County gaining 35,000 residents between 2010-2020.
Cincinnati gained population too, while the city limits of Detroit, Cleveland, even the city of Pittsburgh continued to decline per 2020 census. |
I've talked about this on another thread in the past, but Buffalo is way more of an honest Rust Belt than Detroit, which is a credit to Buffalo and a critique of Detroit. Detroit's regional population losses are much more mild than Buffalo's, but Buffalo's inner-city population losses have been less severe than Detroit's. Buffalo's decline is truly a result of economic collapse rather than bad urban planning.
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