They’ll sell off property for back taxes, let it get built back up and then tax the hell out of it again. Who knows? They might even take the ones that are valuable and resell them at a higher profit. Declare the area blighted.
Its a give and take situation. Other things are cheap in Detroit. People transferring from Boston or NY that I know say that making a high 5 figure salary in Detroit is like making high 6 figures or more elsewhere.
The trick is to find a neighborhood close to downtown that is on the rise. The closer you get to downtown the neighborhoods are getting better but naturally they’re becoming more expensive.
I read an analysis of why Detroit can’t be rescused. People move to where the jobs are and employers move to where the employable people are. Detroit ran out the businesses with high taxes. The people left because the places to work left. Now the remaining people are, for the most part unemployable. Even if the city gave land to companies and didn’t tax them, the land itself would require a huge amount of capital to clean up the mess and chemicals and make useable. Then, there’s the problem of no employable people, no infrastructure and no services. If you have a company and want to relocate there are limitless places with cheap, clean land and plenty of potential workers.
Detroit is expensive because you have to keep replacing things stolen from your house.... Inside and out..
These are not grocery stores as most of us think of them. They are small, independent stores owned by Chaldeans (Christians from the Middle East). Prices are high due to reduced competition, security and shrinkage. Choices are limited.
Recently a large chain, Meijer, opened a full service Walmart like store within the city limits. It was headline news.
There’s serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it’s completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone.
what makes for a worse place to live?
Unaffordability or high crime (or a combo of both?)
I explained that generally speaking, places that have one or both are most often places run exclusively by Democrats for 20+ years.
Michigan had no-fault auto insurance when I lived there. If that’s still the case that could largely explain the high transport cost. No fault is absurdly expensive. Pennsylvania dropped in in the 70’s after a brief experiment.
What on earth does "one of the only" mean?