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Detroit was once one of America's finest cities, basically the embodiment of the American dream. Once the economy that floated all that ended, it ended too.
by retrac 6y ago
Detroit was once one of America's finest cities, basically the embodiment of the American dream. Once the economy that floated all that ended, it ended too.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoMy point is what if that was due to the inertia of the eastern US having more population, being close to necessary waterways for transportation, and certain natural resource stores. We have the internet and cheap transportation now, so people (with resources) can more easily move to where they want to live. I can conceive a future where even if tech were somehow displaced, then other people with money would come to silicon valley, simply because they want to and they're not tied to another location, like richer people may have been during Detroit's heyday.
- _sillymarketing 6y agoTotally. I relocated to Colorado a decade ago, swallowing the cost of living salary decreases, but I'm coming out better in terms of quality of life. If California, for a split second, achieved even close to the affordability for quality of life as CO, I would move back.