Falls Expats Need to Get Back in Game (Croisdale‪)‬

Nostalgia may be the worst thing ever to have happened to Niagara Falls. People who are old enough to remember a different Cataract City--one that didn't have the majority of residents living below the poverty line, didn't have one-in-five houses vacant, didn't have an exodus of college graduates and didn't have a dearth of hope--have fond memories of their youth and upbringing here. That's not the case for most kids today. The children of Niagara Falls circa 2011 are apt to think of their city as some existentialistic prison that they need to escape from or be swallowed whole. They either give in at an all-too-young age and accept a life of altered-state coping, or they grow determined to get a sheepskin and get the hell out.