Originally Posted by stardognine

That was a bad bottom, alright, for the whole Rust Belt. I finished high school over in McDonald, Ohio, which is basically a suburb of Youngstown, Ohio. There was a U.S.Steel plant there, where my step-dad worked, and I probably would have got a job there, but they closed the mills, the same year I graduated, 1979. ☹️

I've gone back a few times, to visit family & friends, and saw some of that drug mess over the years. Trumbull County had the worst death rate in the country, for awhile at least. Sad.