Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
Pittsburgh is much less prosperous/successful than Detroit. Poorer, nonstop population loss for like 70 years, and very little new construction.

Looking at city limits only is silliness; as in Detroit, like 10% of the region lives in the technical city proper. You can't bake a cake with 10% of the ingredients; you can't ascertain a region by ignoring 90% of the region.
Good analogy,always have to look at the big picture.

Its funny,growing up in Minnesota all I knew about Florida was what the pictures showed,sunny beaches,palm trees,girls in bikinis, fun in the sun.

Because that is what they wanted me to see in order to entice.

Move here and outside of the beaches,you can take any city and drop it anywhere in the country and you would not know the difference,outside of the brutal sun in July and august and millions of bugs that you would never see up north,and critters with big jaws that like to wander about in public and snack on your little pets when you walk along the waterways.