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I'm from Michgan as well, and have a lot of family in the greater Detroit area. The sense of despair that most people in the area feel is just awful. After th
by vital101 16y ago
I'm from Michgan as well, and have a lot of family in the greater Detroit area. The sense of despair that most people in the area feel is just awful. After the auto plants started to close up, people just started packing up in hopes of finding work elsewhere. Some moved in-state, but most make the flight south and west (warmer weather, more jobs). I was recently in Dearborn for a wedding, and the number of empty & foreclosed houses is just staggering.
- ricosroughnecks 16y agoYeah, it's pretty wild. And Dearborn is one of the "better" areas. Some parts of the city look like scenes from a Mad Max film. Everything is either foreclosed, empty, or burned. You know, someone with a little money in their pocket come buy up half of the Detroit area; however, what would they do with it?
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- vital101 16y agoAgreed. Even downtown can be a bit scary sometimes, and that's considered the "good" area of Detroit. The problem with buying up all that space is that almost everything on the properties would have to bulldozed. They could probably turn most of detroit into farm land, but that would mean moving an entire cities worth of old concrete and building materials elsewhere.