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In many respects you're all correct, as it also depends on where you look and in what era. Inner city decay has been an ongoing pattern long before freeways. . .Look at old photos of the south side of Chicago, in New York City in neighborhods like Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, Harlem, the south Bronx, & my old neighborhood (Jackson Heights in Queens), or the north side of Boston, Compton & Watts in LA, the Mission District in San Francisco, and everywhere else. It's a natural and unfortunate progression of events - some socio-economic, some due to legislation that drives away certain industries, immigration patterns, and when the real estate market is on the upswing or a downturn. Also, some political regimes either help or hinder the preservation of inner city areas; look what Rudi had done in NYC, and contrast that w/ Mayor Linsey's time in office when NYC went BK and turned into a cesspool - thankfully it's returning to it's former greatness. . . <br /> <br />And small towns - take a hard look at what happened all over the South when the mills went off shore, or in the rust belt when similar happened to their often one major employer, and all of a sudden, unemployment hit 25%. And small towns are attracting third world immigrants, especially Asians and Hispanics who are setting up shops, raising families, and melding into the local scene, just as the Irish, Poles, Italians, and the others did 50 -100 yrs ago. Small towns are what you make of them - charming, quaint, provincial, judgemental, sometimes brutal to newcomers. And forget having a private life - you'll be in a glass house with somebody always peeking and occasionally lofting a stone at it ! <br />BILL
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