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Why would Cleveland be the best place to see this? Wouldn't Detroit be better? Detroit has already collapsed, and is well into a long contractionary period.
by knowtheory 15y ago
Why would Cleveland be the best place to see this?
Wouldn't Detroit be better? Detroit has already collapsed, and is well into a long contractionary period. Local government (sans Kwame) have basically said "well we gotta get used to a smaller tax base and scale back".
Oh, and i absolutely agree on Ohio's school system being totally batshit (Michigan's too). The fact that state funding for the Ohio public schools was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court, and then the state government just simply did nothing is a fucking outrage. To this day, nothing has been done to fix the fundamental injustices of Ohio's schools (rich suburbs can afford rich public schools, and poor towns get nothing. Not even intact school buildings).
- xxpor 15y agoYou're right Detroit might be better. I'm just more familiar with Cleveland, and was using it more as a figure of speech. And too be fair, Cleveland is collapsing almost as fast as Detroit, save for Downtown, Tremont, and the Gordon Sq. area. Edit: And possibly UC, but that's still debatable. It's certainly not falling as fast as the surrounding neighborhoods, that's for sure. But there are also 5+ police departments patrolling to try and keep the riff raff out.
- knowtheory 15y agoYeah, i don't mean to detract from your point. Cleveland has problems, and it needs to find a way to jump start some development.