I was working outside of Flint last summer for about 10 days and this guy I was working with was fresh out of college and bragging about how he just bought a house. I was like DAMN, I didn't own my first house til I was 31! Then he told me he bought it for $11,000! It's like a 3rd world country over there. There was an article out awhile back talking about how there is no national chain grocery store in the city limits of Detroit! Are you fucking kidding me? They have to drive a half an hour out to the suburbs just to get groceries! http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/02/detroit-homes-mortgage-foreclosures-80
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/22/smallbusiness/detroit_grocery_stores.smb/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/06/news/economy/detroit_food/index.htm?postversion=2009080610
I'm not jokin', you don't want to live there. Right in the middle of downtown Detroit are blocks and blocks of vacant lots and burnt down buildings. It's like a bigger, colder New Orleans!
Shady shit! 3rd world country! To be honest, I think 8 mile is outside of town. Nothin' but trailers!
Did anyone watch that show "life after humans"? The show was about how human made structures would survive after humans died off. They'd show abandoned houses (or cities) as examples, and then could computer generate what it would look like 10, 50, 100, 1000 years later (and s on). Those pictures look like they're from that show. That's depressing.
This is sadly fitting! This guy makes our jailblazers look like saints! Scroll down to the scandals! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick
Detroit may not be the most boring city (OKC wins this hands down) but it's overall the worst NBA city. Has anyone seen Michael Moore's first documentary called Roger & Me? Not much has changed in that area since the 80's.
This is kinda becoming the ANTI All things Portland Thread isn't it? Sorry. but this is fascinating to me that in this day and age a major city in the USA can completely look like it would after the apocalypse! Compare their train station to ours! http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=ira3xb2IEb0&feature=related
Yeah, that certainly was a lot of shit. Yeah, it's all the fault of democrats and labor. If not for those things, Detroit would be a thriving city today. And look, here comes the tooth fairy! barfo
