I&#x27;m pretty happy with Bend from that point of view.  It has a real downtown:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;5om22cePPYy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;5om22cePPYy</a><p>It could go up a story or two in places, and grow some, but it seems to have come through the worst of the 20th century car era in decent shape.<p>Not too bad for a place that only officially became a city in the early 1900s.