Posted on 01/02/2011 9:37:18 AM PST by hcmama
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city
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Well, some parts certainly do. There are still some nice places, if you know where to look...and you don't plan to stay too terribly long after sunset...
I think with all the really bad stuff the local cops have to worry about you could just pull up a stake side truck with four or five men and just gut the place.
Since no one cares to do something now then at least let some remodelers have at it and gain something from the mayhem.
Newark, NJ is like that; they try to keep the consumers there after they get out of work (or draw others in who don’t work there), but they know better. After dark all bets are off; if there is a high profile event there are more police than attendees.
I worked in downtown Detroit for a few months, my first day, my boss sat me down and said “Rule #1 - You are NOT to be in this building past 4:30, make sure you are on the road by then.”
When I went to school in Newark, NJ we were advised that if we were there at night, we should slow down at red lights, look both ways, then proceed...
The lost city of detroit
This is what should be on Rush’s website and on Hanity and even on Cavuto
I spent an evening driving around Detroit on Google street scenes.
There are entire neighborhoods of vacant lots where houses once stood, then a small cluster of a few homes then nothing again. It has the appearance of being rural but it’s within 15 minutes drive time of downtown.
The commercial areas have more boarded up stores than operating stores.
It’s the future of a lot of cities in this country.
Check out these real estate listings in Detroit. It’s surreal.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Detroit_MI#/sortby-1
Yeah, well Detroit might be in ruins but they just got $49 million to buy 40,000 lap tops and 5,000 desk top computers for students, all from the stimulus money.
WOW! $200 for a fixer upper “fire damaged” house?!
$1000 for a luxury condo?
I bet that condo for $1000 has $800/mo. taxes and $600/mo. condo fee.
Interesting stats on Detroit from Wiki:
Of the top 10 employers in the city, six are public (state/local/fed/university)
Public jobs constitute 66% of the top 10 employers.
Detroit has lost 1/2 it’s population since 1950.
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