[nobodyandproud]

Do you think this can be reversed and brought back in one generation? Two? Three?

Assume a generation to be about 21 years (birth to high school + trade training).

Our business leaders since the 1980s failed to quantify the cost of a possible revamp, and I wonder what the true cost will end up being.

I’ve seen some of the Great Lake cities and towns that are in sad shape; but I was too young (and being immigrants, also too poor) to tour those areas in any depth in the Reagan/Carter days so I can only imagine what they were like back then.