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So Rotterdam is a place of active people riding around without helmets engaging in casual conversation and healthy living.
Let's compare 4 minutes of Rotterdam to 4 minutes of St. Louis.
This is from the St. Louis Downtown Partnership,
Ok, kids have fun in St. Louis apparently, but adults shop at corporate grocery stores instead of the independent one blocks away, they live expensive lives in expensives places, and appear to have semi-superficial friendships--bowling hipsters aside.
What happened to all the bikers and fun loving people we saw in Rotterdam?
Wash U's law school is selling a pretty exciting part of the city. Rotterdam, where are your ariels of misty park land and imposing castles? Eh?
I'm not feeling the "I need to move downtown" vibe yet. We need to work on this still.
Forest Park is not the "largest urban park in the country"-- not by any stretch. Philly, New Orleans, the Bronx (among others) all have larger urban parks than Forest Park. It's arguable that Forest Park is the BEST park in the country, but exaggerating a simple fact is annoying and comes off sounding stupid to anyone who knows better.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that claim made me cringe a bit too. Dig through this blog for the comparison of St. Louis and Chicago parks, and I list them by acres. We do have Central Park beat, and of that we might as well be proud.
ReplyDeleteThe downtown St. Louis videos try too hard. Fashion shows? I don't think so. It has to be authentic. You're not going to convince someone this is Manhattan.
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