Quote Originally Posted by O3H View Post
A community is better off with plenty of demographic diversity.
It is economically better off due to the cultural and ethnic mix of people.
Yes but even more so the ability to handle income diversity,what we are now seeing in the “richest cities” and even now Pittsburgh is a reversal of sorts.

Where the high income can afford to live in the city the lower incomes are being pushed to the suburbs,before they had to travel to the burbs for work now it is traveling to the city to work.

This whole Amazon thing is kinda a case study of sorts that kinda creates some myths.

It was automatically figured that the city offering the most incentives would better their odds.

But $750 million won out over 7 billion.

Everybody is on a we must educate our population for tech,but yet tech is settling anywhere because opportunities follow it.

So in the end it really seems like the best way for a city to attract new residents and buisnesses is to concentrate on doing the best that they can with the current residents first,because they will ask for and expect no more then anybody locating there would.

That would seem to include all levels of income from the tire changers all the way up to the CEOs that diversity would be all inclusive.

The thing is citys like NYC and California can never go back without falling first,Detroit fell and is getting back up with the ability to push the reset button and do it different this time,yes it paid a horrible price for that,but at this point it does not matter what happened,you cannot change the past and there is no progress in beating somebody up over it.

Learn from it,move forward while not repeating the same mistakes.