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Originally Posted by DCReid
I wonder if cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, and St Louis should offer incentives for people to move there? If states can offer financial incentives to get businesses to move, why don't cities that have ample space and reasonable housing costs do the same?
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I don’t really think of Pittsburgh as having “ample space”. Sure, the city itself used to have more than double its current population, but that was with like 6 people per rowhouse. Pittsburgh has very little “urban prairie” in comparison to the other cities listed here.
And people are moving here... though the population is rather flat because it’s tough to keep up with the death rate. Also, as eschaton said, encouraging gentrification is definitely not going to fly here, nor in the other cities I imagine. Many neighborhoods in Pittsburgh have become pretty expensive as it is.
Plus... I am 100% totally fully absolutely content with Pittsburgh’s size. We for some reason always tend to equate population growth with being ‘good’. The Bigger is better notion. I’ll take Pittsburgh any day of the week over a Nashville, Phoenix, Columbus, Charlotte, Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, blah blah blah (and I like all those cities, except for Charlotte and Atlanta maybe)