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If this inner ring suburb is dying then the city is also dying. Inner ring suburbs are usually one of the first to benefit as city workers, looking for a shorte
by yardie 9y ago
If this inner ring suburb is dying then the city is also dying. Inner ring suburbs are usually one of the first to benefit as city workers, looking for a shorter commute, buy housing nearby.
My city, Miami, dilapidated shacks are being snatched up for 300-500k, cash. And they are <20 minutes from the city core. That is what a ring suburb in a thriving city looks like.
If they aren’t getting developers sniffing around driving up the tax base then merging with the city won’t fix it.
- notfromhere 9y agoNot necessarily. Chicago is experiencing a trend where the city center and north/west side are booming but the inner suburbs are slowly dying while the outer suburbs are booming.
- yardie 9y agoI remain to be convinced. The last figures I could find was for 2015, 2010-2015 population grew 0.9% [0]. Not necessarily booming. [0] http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/chicago-population/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/chicago-populatio...
- notfromhere 9y agoIt's more of the poor are leaving and the middle/upper class is arriving.