Be glad you don't live in Detroit

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Damn I did a web check on prices and found a ton of places starting at $475 with a mortgage of 2 odd dollars a month. Shit, you could pay for that with coke cans.

What'd be sweet would be to buy a whole block - tear the crap down and build a house in the middle of it. 12ft concrete fence with razor wire - you'd be set!

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
They need Robocop

I like how Robocop was supposed to be satire, a ridiculous future that could never really come to pass. Seems like Detroit is calling Paul Verhoeven's bluff.

At least they've found something they are good at! Name one other place in America that can manufacture urban blight like good 'ol Motor City!

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: eskimospy

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
They need Robocop

I like how Robocop was supposed to be satire, a ridiculous future that could never really come to pass. Seems like Detroit is calling Paul Verhoeven's bluff.

At least they've found something they are good at! Name one other place in America that can manufacture urban blight like good 'ol Motor City!

Oakland is trying.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Call me crazy, but at those prices it seems almost insane not to Buy 1. I find it very difficult to believe that a city is going to just cease to exist and that it's Homes will never recover in value.

If I could buy up a crapload of land and not be forced to do anything with it, that would be great. Sooner or later (maybe a hundred years) that area will be worth something again, and I or my family would be sitting pretty. But I think if you buy residential land you cant just demolish the building and then do nothing with it. I believe you have about a year before you make it liveable otherwise you are in trouble with the state.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: GeezerMan

Sad to see a city go down like this.

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Some good news here. This link shows some progress in turning around the decay of Detroit

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Bad, esp. the google car pics of the garbage on the road.

the real sad part is those roads look in better condition than PA's roads. Of course there is probably less traffic there, and they probably don't salt those roads.

 

[JACKDRUID]

wow.. $7500 for a house... cheaper than a piece of desert land in between vegas and los angeles...

 

[glenn1]

Now that all the resident conservatives have gotten their chance to gloat ("oh, look at what those silly African-Americans and Democrats have done to their city - hee hee"), it'd be nice if they actually offered some suggestions for how to improve things. Those on the progressive side of the house are welcome to reply as well, but beware that you can't realistically use "it's all Republicans' fault" in this case.

 

[Squisher]

This article will give you some insight into why Detroit is so effed up

I was thinking about making that article into its own thread.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
They need Robocop

Wasn't the city virtually owned by a corporation (ie, GM) in Robocop that decided the only way to clean up the streets was with heartless robotic police officers and the institution of propped up gang wars to create reason to bulldoze half the city? And didn't Robocop undercover the corrupt corporate plans in each movie? And didn't the city get worse in every subsequent movie as a result of Robocop interfering with the corporation's plans?

Maybe sometimes freedom isn't worth the cost.

All the citizens need to do is to form that wonderful efficient economy that doesn't need any help from the government. Don't need government schools, hospitals, etc., right?

It's already there! Did you see the cost of the homes?

 

[Double Trouble]

Originally posted by: Craig234
Sounds like a great city for Libertarians, with a crippled government and citizens 'doing their own thing'. If that thing is gangs, well, I told you so.

All the citizens need to do is to form that wonderful efficient economy that doesn't need any help from the government. Don't need government schools, hospitals, etc., right?

My God you're an idiot. The situation you have there has nothing to do with libertarianism. The government there sucks up a bunch of money but is so corrupt that it cannot / will not provide the services to the citizens. This is simply crappy government combined with stupid citizens.

 

[Double Trouble]

Originally posted by: glenn1
Now that all the resident conservatives have gotten their chance to gloat ("oh, look at what those silly African-Americans and Democrats have done to their city - hee hee"), it'd be nice if they actually offered some suggestions for how to improve things. Those on the progressive side of the house are welcome to reply as well, but beware that you can't realistically use "it's all Republicans' fault" in this case.

The (non politically correct) truth is that Detroit is exactly the same was as most large inner cities would be if the city took a big economic hit like Detroit has with the downfall of the big 3. Liberal / socialist government, uneducated population, little income, few ways to escape poverty, crime, etc etc.

 

[Infohawk]

With property costs so low it and an uneducated population it sounds like a great place to set up heavy industry... oh wait.

Originally posted by: Double Trouble

Originally posted by: glenn1
Now that all the resident conservatives have gotten their chance to gloat ("oh, look at what those silly African-Americans and Democrats have done to their city - hee hee"), it'd be nice if they actually offered some suggestions for how to improve things. Those on the progressive side of the house are welcome to reply as well, but beware that you can't realistically use "it's all Republicans' fault" in this case.

The (non politically correct) truth is that Detroit is exactly the same was as most large inner cities would be if the city took a big economic hit like Detroit has with the downfall of the big 3. Liberal / socialist government, uneducated population, little income, few ways to escape poverty, crime, etc etc.

You completely failed to respond to his post. In fact, you posted exactly what he complained about. I'm not sure why you quoted it.

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: eskimospy

Originally posted by: brownzilla786
They need Robocop

I like how Robocop was supposed to be satire, a ridiculous future that could never really come to pass. Seems like Detroit is calling Paul Verhoeven's bluff.

At least they've found something they are good at! Name one other place in America that can manufacture urban blight like good 'ol Motor City!

Oakland is trying.

Oakland isn't trying they are succeeding and sadly Newsom and the gang in San Francisco are following them down the drain.

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: Squisher
This article will give you some insight into why Detroit is so effed up

I was thinking about making that article into its own thread.

Wow...is all I can say for that group of losers running Detroit into the ground.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Even if the median value of homes sold was 300K I'd still be glad I don't live there.

Exactly my feelings...Prices there could be tripling annually and I'd STILL be glad not to live there.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Damn I did a web check on prices and found a ton of places starting at $475 with a mortgage of 2 odd dollars a month. Shit, you could pay for that with coke cans.

What'd be sweet would be to buy a whole block - tear the crap down and build a house in the middle of it. 12ft concrete fence with razor wire - you'd be set!

I already live in a place like that, but the wire is to keep me in.