OT: Detroit Fans who LIVE in Detroit. Is this accurate?

[mattola]

Captured: The Ruins of Detroit | Plog ? World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage ? The Denver Post

fucking WOW

 

[jstewismybastardson]

i remember these pictures posted last year ... amazing pictures

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Captured: The Ruins of Detroit | Plog ? World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage ? The Denver Post

fucking WOW

Don't live in Detroit, but have been through. Obviously the whole town isn't like that, but that is accurate. There are some amazingly nice and beautiful neighborhoods in Detroit, and some huge swaths that are reverting back to forest. Go on Google Earth, you will see areas where there are entire city blocks and neighborhoods that have been bulldozed and demolished.

 

[BigBadDup]

"I can't take it anymore, stuck here in Iraq, buildings torn up everywhere, not a decent looking woman in sight, bad food, filthy streets...."

"Dude, shake your shellshock, you've been home in Detroit for weeks!!"

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Don't live in Detroit, but have been through. Obviously the whole town isn't like that, but that is accurate. There are some amazingly nice and beautiful neighborhoods in Detroit, and some huge swaths that are reverting back to forest. Go on Google Earth, you will see areas where there are entire city blocks and neighborhoods that have been bulldozed and demolished.

Didnt Dave Bing run for mayor on a campaign of "abandoning" whole neighbourhoods (ie bulddozing them) and turning them into parkland.

The municipal costs to service these areas where only a handful of people lived and paid taxes made the idea acceptable

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Didnt Dave Bing run for mayor on a campaign of "abandoning" whole neighbourhoods (ie bulddozing them) and turning them into parkland.

The municipal costs to service these areas where only a handful of people lived and paid taxes made the idea acceptable

It's actually a very unpopular idea in the "target" neighborhoods. But when you have a city that used to have 1.5M people that now has 900K, your tax base is wiped out but you're still trying to maintain sewers, potholes*, police and fire... it's the only reasonable solution.


*it's a good thing Detroit isn't subsidizing the Wings with a $50M bond...

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

It's actually a very unpopular idea in the "target" neighborhoods. But when you have a city that used to have 1.5M people that now has 900K, your tax base is wiped out but you're still trying to maintain sewers, potholes*, police and fire... it's the only reasonable solution.


*it's a good thing Detroit isn't subsidizing the Wings with a $50M bond...

^^ this. The situation there is very, very grim.

 

[sherbert1421]

i think this pretty much sums it up