Rich and po? Uptown there are escorts while downtown there are hookers but in the end they all are just whores.
This post was edited by O-uknow at May 20, 2018 7:14 PM MDT
"Downtown" officially means the main business district, but that doesn't mean anything any more. "Uptown" is the opposite, but that doesn't mean anything now either.
Yuma , Arizona only existed because it was the perfect place to cross the Colorado River. Not such a great place to have a highway. So the highway had to go a half mile upstream to where the river passed between two small mountains and it was a good place for a bridge, but then the traffic had to go back downstream to where there was a flat place suitable for a road. Main Street already existed, running from the ferry to a little mountain a half mile away. So the highway ran across Main Street. As long as the city was small, that didn't matter too much, and business flourished. Eventually, bridge building was advanced to a point where the river could be crossed where the ground was flat on both sides, routing traffic away from Downtown.
Downtown had always been a bit of a mess, what with the railroad switch yard and roundhouse and stuff. Basically there was a ring of steel all the way around downtown. Streets leading to the rest of the city were cut up by small hills and odd angles. Bottom line: the city rebuilt itself two miles away where there was plenty of flat ground and traffic.
The problem now is that businesses have turned all the property over to the city to escape the tax burden. The city fathers want some sort of a monument to themselves, but they don't have enough brains to make a profit on the property. So they keep spending money on "beautification", but the place is still just a collection of fleabag buildings that were put up a century ago.
I never got to the point, did I? What they should do is build a dam at the north end of Main and turn the place into a lake. It would be a little over a half mile long and a quarter mile wide. Then there would be something to do in town besides get out of town.
O-uknow 