Only New Orleans tops Detroit area population loss

SignsonSandiego.com ^ | 3/22/07

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Both cities run by Buffoons

[snoringbear]

"Yes they are and the state is getting bluer....."

Agree taildragger. I know several of these displaced folks from the upper Midwest that have relocated here in Texas. No sooner do they get out of their cars do they start running down the state of Texas in which they have found employment. Then, they start talking about how great things are back where they came from. go figure. I have long said that the Border Patrol is guarding the wrong river. Should be up on the Red River instead of down there on the Rio Grande.

[Brujo]

ahh.. looked like some kind of classic cult classic but I didn't recognize it. I went and found the clip on Youtube. What is the threat of Detroit about? Does Detroit has some double-meaning in this movie or it Detriot just supposed the horror-filled place that most of us see it as today?

Nothing special. I think it was just a commentary on how bad conditions were (are) in Detroit. It's kind of like in the 1979 comedy, The In-Laws, when the dictator portrayed by Richard Libertini gets the money to pay Peter Falk. These two guards walk in with a briefcase full of cash. They look like the typical old style store guards and the dictator says, “These are the two best security guards in the world. They used to work for J.C. Penney. In Detroit!”

More recently, RoboCop dumped on Detroit in 1987. “Old” Detroit was the city in ruins and “Delta City” was the new city about to be constructed.

I think Detroit has been everyone's example of a failed city for a number of years now.

[Richard Kimball]

Boys, this town needs an enema.

[AmishDude]

Look for the union label...

[Clemenza]

Michigan missed the 1990s/2000s. Even in the more affluent areas (Bloomfield Hills, Troy, etc.) there hasn't been much growth/progress/change, etc.

What amazes me is how CHEAP housing is in the Detroit area, even in Oakland County. A two bedroom in the GHETTO of Newark (think west of Cass in Detroit), will set you back $200K. Then again, this is the NYC metro area...

[Clemenza]

Every Sonata sold in this country since '05 has been produced in Kentucky. Toyota has a plant in West Virginia.

Ironic, as at one time, folks left those states to move to Michigan to work in "Mr. Ford's Miracle" at River Rouge.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Sh**y weather, economic decline, political sclerosis. What's not to like?

[MinorityRepublican]

Detroit should be destroyed.

[FreedomPoster]

The residents are doing a pretty good job of it, on their own.