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Originally Posted by MarketStEl
Funny you should mention Buffalo.
That is one of only two of the 50 largest US metropolitan areas to lose population metrowide from 1990 to 2000, and I believe Census Bureau estimates have both of them continuing to shed residents in toto.
The other one? Pittsburgh.
You're probably right, phillynova -- compared to Buffalo, we do have our act together.
I'd even be willing to include Detroit in that category. Not so sure about Pittsburgh despite the relative performance of Pennsylania's two big cities, though.
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she was just mentioning that she or he was from Buffalo as a point of reference.
The main point of the post was that the barnes in merion is the ANTIthesis of what mr barnes desired through his will. well, the pro-merion supporters are quick to point out that mr barnes was against the philadelphia establishment when he established his collection in merion and made sure at the time that priority access was granted to working class people. if that is what we are trying to protect; than what is the benefit of keeping the art collection on latches lane besides the fact that 50 plus years ago (at the advent of the suburb community and pre-white flight) merion seemed like the best place to achieve this goal and the facts cannot support achieving this goal more in merion than in Philly?