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I was recently in Detroit and was curious to see some of the neighborhoods where you can buy houses for $10-20k. Here are some pictures Those houses in the pi

by minimax 13y ago

I was recently in Detroit and was curious to see some of the neighborhoods where you can buy houses for $10-20k. Here are some pictures Those houses in the pictures are probably perfectly good houses. We have the same situation in certain neighborhoods on the south and west sides of Chicago. Sturdy brick houses that will last forever but nobody wants to live in because crime in the neighborhood is too high. It was not too tricky to dig the zip code out of the pictures on the blog. You can see the sort of crime that will make houses in your neighborhood basically worthless: http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/48204-Detroit/crime/ http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/48204-Detroit/crime/

jotm 13y ago
Get a gun, two dogs, put up bars, don't flaunt your wealth and you can live rather well there - third world living tips :-)
- mcguire 13y ago
  Or you could go somewhere else, pay a little more, and not have to treat your neighbors as active enemies. I don't believe Somalia sees a lot of immigration.
  - cinquemb 13y ago
    It's kind of interesting thinking about this from a historical perspective considering that most people who give or associate their sovereignty to a (nation)state body pretty much treat (or have at some point treated) their nation state neighbors as active enemies, but people more privileged than others who are multiple degrees away from such externalities don't have to worry, and such attitudes only help exacerbate such situations which then turn not having to worry status quos to heads on block ones…
tomp 13y ago
Move to Europe! On a more serious note, this is a problem relatively unknown in most of Europe. Sure, there are some (poor) neighbourhoods with relatively more crime, but it's a different kind of crime. You might get mugged, but you won't get shot.
- bananacurve 13y ago
  >Move to Europe! If you are starting a technology company you may want to rethink that idea.

by minimax 13y ago

jotm 13y ago

Get a gun, two dogs, put up bars, don't flaunt your wealth and you can live rather well there - third world living tips :-)

mcguire 13y ago
Or you could go somewhere else, pay a little more, and not have to treat your neighbors as active enemies. I don't believe Somalia sees a lot of immigration.
- cinquemb 13y ago
  It's kind of interesting thinking about this from a historical perspective considering that most people who give or associate their sovereignty to a (nation)state body pretty much treat (or have at some point treated) their nation state neighbors as active enemies, but people more privileged than others who are multiple degrees away from such externalities don't have to worry, and such attitudes only help exacerbate such situations which then turn not having to worry status quos to heads on block ones…

tomp 13y ago

Move to Europe! On a more serious note, this is a problem relatively unknown in most of Europe. Sure, there are some (poor) neighbourhoods with relatively more crime, but it's a different kind of crime. You might get mugged, but you won't get shot.

bananacurve 13y ago
>Move to Europe! If you are starting a technology company you may want to rethink that idea.