Flint is a dead rustbelt city that was built by General Motors in the early 20th century. It is now an industrial wasteland with a dwindling population and crumbling infrastructure. Like Detroit, Pontiac, Saginaw, Muskegon, and Bay City, these cities are one trick ponies, and without the industrial base that financed them, they just need to be cast aside and left to rot into the ground.
Oh, and these cities are the target destination for the fed importation of “refugees” and illegal DACA dreamers, turning these cities into unrecognizable by American standards third world shitholes.
As a disclaimer, I grew up in Pontiac, MI. I saw all of this starting to unfold in the early 1990’s.
Two years ago we sold our primary home in Tacoma and moved to Michigan. I grew up near Detroit spending weekends on Pontiac Lake.
Currently near Gaylord and love every minute of life here upnorth. Got a pileated woodpecker living across the road from us who eats breakfast near our kitchen window every morning.