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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
St. Louis City unwisely divorced itself from St. Louis County back in 19th century to become an independent city, unaware of the mass suburbanization that would come in the 20th.
So left without a county seat, what remained of St. Louis County chose Clayton as the new county seat.
That divorce is another complicating part of the problem.
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Oh man, I can only imagine if that happened in Buffalo (city pop ~280k). Amherst (pop. 131k) would have an actual secondary downtown and downtown Buffalo would look like Erie or a smaller Akron or something
The other day I watched a video on Milwaukee from a travel YouTuber and she stated that downtown/inner city Milwaukee felt much more active and vibrant in one afternoon than her entire 2 days in St. Louis she had visited prior.
I looked up the Metro populations. You can literally move the entire Buffalo-Niagara MSA (<1.2M) to Milwaukee MSA (<1.6M) and it would still be tens of thousands less population than St. Louis MSA (2.8M). Crazy difference in size.
At the rate the city of St. Louis is still declining, it's entirely possible the city of Buffalo will surpass it in population by the 2030 census unless things change.
I thought the city proper had been on the rebound but I guess it's only certain neighborhoods benefiting