Forever is a very long time.
The article provides a slide show and explanations as to why these cities are dead forever.
But here is the list for those interested (if you want a detailed explanation, please click on the site ):
1. BUFFALO,NY
2. FLINT, MICHIGAN
3. DETROIT, MICHIGAN
4. CLEVELAND, OHIO
5. HARTFORD, CT
6. NEW ORLEANS, LA
7. ALBANY, NY
8. ATLANTIC CITY, NJ
9. ALLENTOWN, PA
10. GALVESTON, TX
We didn’t need industry. Free Traitors explained that to us.
This is no bog deal. I say board up another 100 cities, no make it a thousand.
We can’t compete. We can’t make good products. We don’t need a tax base.
Service sector jobs is where it’s at. $12 dollars an hour is the new $20 per hour. Excellent...
Who the hell built up the Japanese after WW11
They were either destroyed by being a Democrat utopia or union town IMO.
In 5 to 10 years at most you will be able to add Dallas to the list.
The surrounding cities are all Republican controlled and doing fine. The City of Dallas is now controlled by Democrats who are taxing and spending all of the businesses out to the surrounding cities.
Public schools have largely stopped producing students capable of producing PRODUCTS!
Very little math, science, shop, business, physics, chemistry, etc.
Too much sociology, psychology, victimology, pseudo-environmentalism (pretending to fix things that aren’t broke).
It's no mere coincidence that so many of these cities are in the old "Rust Belt" region and located along the Great Lakes or other waterways that served as trade routes in the past. Many of these cities grew as industrial hubs because of their locations on these routes and/or their proximity to key resources used in steel-based manufacturing (iron ore and coal in particular).
Albany, NY is a perfect case in point. That city grew because it was situated near the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, and served as a canal-based "crossroads" of the Erie and Champlain Canals. That city lost this advantage once railroads supplanted the canals and rivers as the primary mode of freight transportation in the region (a long-running process that continues to this day).
Other cities on that list lost their "advantage of place" when plastics began to supplant steel in many manufactured products. Look at all the auto plants that have been built in the Southeast over the last two decades. They can thrive there not only because of lower labor costs, but because the auto manufacturing industry doesn't require close proximity to steel producers anymore.
Could not agree more.
As far as the People’s Republic of New York, I have been saying this for many years. There is no reason, no economic advantage nor driving inspiration for anyone to live more than 1/2 HR outside New York City. (except easier to obtain CC permits)
Today also, there is little reason to live IN NYC. Everything can be done less expensively, more cleanly and with more future viability OUTSIDE of NYC. Wall Street is doomed.
Once the United Nations is pushed off the the edge of Manhattan island, turn off the lights, the partys over.
Lessons learnt: low quality can sink whole cities, you can have a huge port and still not have a great city around because of politics, and gambling can only bail you out for so long.
Galveston 10 of 10
Psalm 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
I suspect the “lost population” of most of those cities didn’t move very far. They might not live within the city limits any more, but they’re still in the suburban metropolitan area, in most instances.
None of the cities listed in the example are what I would call thriving, but I wouldn’t call them dead, either. New Orleans may never be the city it was in the 19th and early 20th century, but Katrina cleaned out a lot of the dead wood and things are actually moving in a somewhat positive direction now—admittedly with a long, long way to go. Galveston took a hard knock, but it’s not going anywhere. He has a better argument with Detroit and Cleveland.
Can we add our own? I will nominate Duluth, MN. It has much going for it in the way of location (rail from the prairies/western coal fields meets international port on the Great Lakes), setting and natural beauty. Destroyed first by literal Communists, many of whom still live there, followed not surprisingly by gangbangers/welfare parasites. Has lost jobs and population consistently for the past 40 years. Hub of Rep. Jim Oberstar’s district, the poster boy for term limits.
Free trade didn’t destroy these cities - over-regulation and politics did.
Imagine yourself as a manufacturer in Buffalo. You face OSHA, FDA, EPA and all the heavy-handed NY State equivalents. You have almost forced unionization, high property taxes, high school taxes, and high taxes on employment. You will soon be taxed for health-care, even if you never offered it to your employees. You face politically-connected tort lawyers who will take millions from you for the slightest mistake, and therefore, you pay astronomical insurance rates as well.
Is ANYONE surprised when a company decides not to manufacture for export, set up plants overseas, and then also use those plants to import into the USA?
Scott Norwood killed Buffalo!
“10 American Cities That Are Dead Forever”
Bull****!
Each of these 10 cities would be super-prosperous successes if they:
1) got rid of the thieving democrat party hacks in charge.
2) lowered all taxes
3) fired all the crooked public union workers
4) got rid of all the socialist hyper-regulations
5) zero corporate taxes
6) no sales taxes
7) make it easy to open a new business in 1 hour at no cost
The mexicans are bringing mexico to the south weastern U.S. too..
Mexifornia ia already decomposing.. in an advanced stage..