Wall Street Journal softball story on St Louis.

Lawrence00

Lawrence00

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WSJ recently published a column about St Louis. If you don't subscribe to WSJ you can ask Bing or elsewhere about it. I actually subscribe on a trial for I think $2 per month and in a year they will try to get me to stay for full price.

Anyway this is my hometown. Aside from a handful of years away, I've been here.

St Louis has been going way downhill for a long time.

I've been one personal connection away from some murders. I've been robbed twice. My sister was robbed by gunpoint up against her teenage son's head.

In addition to being the murder capital of the world at least one year, it's been in the top ten many times and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

So of course corporations left, people don't want to work, live, or shop down there except those that can't get out yet, or have poop for brains.

It's not getting better.

Don't visit St Louis unless you want to get carjacked, robbed, raped, or maybe just shot for fun.

I have escaped the city, the county, and live about an hour away from it now.
 

Man, that is such a drag. Missouri, the heart-state of the US, known for salt-of-the-earth people, nearly 100,000 food-producing farms, the Ozarks, the great river....

Heartbreaking, seriously. I mean, you can see how L.A. or Sacramento, Calif could go to shyte with all its experimentation, vanity, and a seemingly endless supply of fantasies, but St Louis, Missouri?
 
I live near Columbia. I have been to the city a few times. Downtown is almost vacant. The suburbs sprawl endlessly. East St. Louis is noted as being a unpleasant place. I wonder sometimes how they keep the Cardinals going. Football had to move.
 

Although I'm a life long New York Yankees and American League fan, I never want to see the Cardinals leave St. Louis. The National League would never be the same!
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Murrmurr said:
Man, that is such a drag. Missouri, the heart-state of the US, known for salt-of-the-earth people, nearly 100,000 food-producing farms, the Ozarks, the great river....

Heartbreaking, seriously. I mean, you can see how L.A. or Sacramento, Calif could go to shyte with all its experimentation, vanity, and a seemingly endless supply of fantasies, but St Louis, Missouri?
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St Louis is a very small sliver of Missouri. I hope to move to the Ozarks one day.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I live near Columbia. I have been to the city a few times. Downtown is almost vacant. The suburbs sprawl endlessly. East St. Louis is noted as being a unpleasant place. I wonder sometimes how they keep the Cardinals going. Football had to move.
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People swarm downtown for Cardinals games. So there is some safety in numbers, and multiple cops on every corner during games. Then it empties.
 
I have been to St. Louis to visit my grandson while he was in the Army at Fort Leonard Wood. My wife and I took tours of the

Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company and the Clydesdale Stables and if course the beer garden and souvenir shop and the Arch, but it was closed for maintenance.​


I have noticed their murder rate has fallen quite a bit.
 
Alot of cities on the decline. Cities are more susceptible because their are greater chances of a criminal confrontation or interactions with a criminal because of higher density living/population. The proximity to someone else is much closer in a city.
 
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