More Birmingham/New Orleans Comparisons
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197,000 people live in Birmingham, but it used to have more. Birmingham used to have as many people as New Orleans does now: 380,000.
Like New Orleans, Birmingham is overbuilt for its current population. Unlike New Orleans, not everything is falling apart. There is plenty of decay but, in the parts I frequent, there are also plenty of big new apartmen…