It’s not just Detroit dying.
On my road in rural Michigan, there are only two households working, myself included. The remainder are on SS, retired, or on welfare SS disability. Two houses are vacant and two are for sale.
On the parallel road, three households are on welfare, three are on SS or retired and two houses are vacant and up for sale.
The largest Michigan export are graduates leaving the state looking for better opportunities. Michigan is #1 in United moving vans leaving. It’s also the only state to post a negative economic growth last year, with the exception of LA, whose economic bad luck was hurricane-induced.
Michigan has the highest unemployment in the nation. Some rural counties had 20% or better unemployment this past winter. I’m predicting 40% this winter.
You can buy a nice three bedroom, two bath home in many Michigan locales for the price of a new car.
We also have a communist governor who is doing to the state what the black socialists are doing to Detroit. If you want to see what America would look like under the female communist Hillary, Michigan is that picture.
I agree. Michigan is dying along with the auto industry. I can’t imagine what will happen in this state when bad times hit on a national basis.
Everywhere you go the stores are closing, the houses are for sale, the toys (dirt bikes, snowmobiles, classic cars) are down by the curb with “for sale” signs. A guy down the street from me has an elaborate custom garden shed that matches his house for sale for $1500 down by the curb.
And Hilary! wants to “Grandholm” the rest of the country.