Will Detroit Be The First Major Chinese City In The United States?

Zero Hedge via TEC ^ | 05/06/2014 | Michael Snyder

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL

[ConservativeMan55]

Was that riots during the OJ trial? Or were those earlier riots?

[SECURE AMERICA]

I thought it was already a muslim city..

[Pontiac]

It took eight years of Barry to finally finish us off.

I’m pretty sure he has done it in six.

The Republic is dead; it all over but the twitching.

[Jewbacca]

I don’t have a problem with that picture, at al.

Except they should be wearing helmets.

[untenured]

For a couple of years the Chinese-language press in the U.S. has had stories about how it’s easy to find houses in Detroit going for less than $1000, and how Chinese at that price simply can’t justify not buying. One wonders where the would-be American buyers are, other than reading paranoid articles about Chinese takeovers.

[dangerdoc]

Will they run it better?

[ConservativeMan55]

Yah definitely helmets!!

[Kenny Bunk]

Lighten up, Mike.

As long as these Chinamen are willing to learn Spanish, and fill out multiple absentee ballots, I don't see the problem. Plus I am all the time reading about wild dog packs in the abandoned areas of Detroit, so it shouldn't cost much to feed these industrious new immigrants.

Get with Diversity, OK?

[Red Badger]

Well, maybe they can bring some Korean grocers with them as well.....................

[Political Junkie Too]

Well, they should have good take-out soon enough.

-PJ

[mad_as_he$$]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5pUOVC50Y8

[OldNewYork]

What a blast from the past. Remember the 90’s?

[cripplecreek]

One wonders where the would-be American buyers are, other than reading paranoid articles about Chinese takeovers.

There are American buyers but you don't hear much about them. Quicken has transferred some 2400 people and their families to Detroit over the past few years along with some other big companies.

My neighbor's grandson moved to Detroit from NY about 2 years ago and he really likes it. The same pay he made in NY goes a lot further in Detroit. He bought a decent house he couldn't have touched in NY and his neighbors are mostly coworkers who have really cleaned the neighborhood up. Quicken pays for private security to back of Detroit police in his neighborhood.

When it comes right down to it you won't find a freer large city in America. Detroit is an open carry stand your ground city with a police chief who supports it. There are no salt and sugar nazis. Its obviously no utopia but things are getting better.

[DoughtyOne]

Rodney King... 1992

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Was that riots during the OJ trial? Or were those earlier riots?

I think they were earlier — when the Korean stores were being attacked during the Rodney King riots.

[olepap]

cripplecreek - excellent post - it made me think.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: For a couple of years the Chinese-language press in the U.S. has had stories about how it’s easy to find houses in Detroit going for less than $1000, and how Chinese at that price simply can’t justify not buying.

OK, they buy the property for $1000, then what?

They spend another $50,000 fixing it up only to have their properties broken into every week. Is it worth the price and aggravation?

[cripplecreek]

Also a great town for sports. Air racing over the river, power boat racing on it, Indycar racing on Belle Isle. NASCAR racing is only an hour away near where I live. The Tigers are a contending team, There’s Red Wings, Pistons and if you’re into self abuse, the Lions.

[a fool in paradise]

And a Lobocop on every corner.