This is one of the best photo sets the twins have posted in awhile.
You'all's photo sets are usually too "gritty" for me, but this one was great.
With all due respect, I want to chime in on one aspect of the discussion then I'm going to go ghost.
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Originally Posted by IWant2BeInSTL
i do apologize to everyone else for this thread getting derailed. this will be my final comment on the matter.
here's why i'm losing my cool, d'trolley. try actually taking the time to read the sequence of comments carefully this time. Emphases are mine.
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He's trolling you, but I say dig in. I'm loving it. Stay true to your never-say-die hardscrabble St. Louis roots! LOL! I think you are handling yourself pretty well.
Nonetheless, I'm always baffled at how
some KC people tend (or pretend) to know more about St. Louis than St. Louisans.
Some KCitians will let their envy of STL show up anywhere. They simply can't contain themselves.
The whole "single family" housing assertion was enough to question his credibility. When the stats (presented by Steely Dan) were presented...ahem.... he goes on to say that many of the flats in St. Louis have been converted into single family homes, which is true. A conversion also requires a permit, which in time becomes a real number.
The stats presented seem to indicate a near balance (SF vs. MF) based on numbers issued by City Hall to the Census Bureau.
Also, although the current percentages (SF vs. MF) are close, I am willing to bet the City of St. Louis at one time had more multi-family dwellings or shared an even percentage with single-family.
Unfortunately, large swaths of St. Louis City have been torn down. Neighborhoods such as McRee Town, which had blocks of multi-family units decimated is now filled with new single-family housing called
Botanical Heights. The riverfront area had trade and multi-family units. The Gateway Arch sits there. Same with Mill Creek Valley. Torn down. Same with the Pruitt-Igoe area. The Gate District, etc.
Despite having a lot of great housing stock to this very day, a lot of it, sadly, has been lost to demolition, decay, fire, tornadoes, earthquakes, re-gentrification, highways, commercial projects, brick-rustling, etc. Keep in mind that MANY of those were multi-family units. The city had almost 900,000 people. They all lived in single-family? No way.
Regardless, KC is the city with large SF number - not STL.