Data Is Beautiful

Yeah Dayton isn’t doing well. If you stick to Kettering, Beavercreek, and downtown you’re fine, but it’s an industrial city that lost all its factories. NCR leaving wrecked it as did the opioid epidemic. It’s also struggling with being one of the more conservative cities as well as having all the nice parts of it independent towns. Hell the most historically important place there, the Wright brothers’ shop was moved to a wealthy suburb to act as a museum.

It’s a shame. If you want a small affordable city with nice things it’s great. Beautiful parks that allow open drinking, decent culture including a magnificent Oktoberfest that includes admission to the art museum, and it’s not too far from Columbus which is the second biggest city in the Midwest bigger than major cities like Baltimore, DC, Denver, and San Francisco.