Houses cheaper than cars in depressed Detroit

[jem]

you know he got into wharton at the very end of the naz bubble. I was out with him the night before his school started.

All these people thinking they were going to have 10,000 a week summer internships and 3-400 hundred when they graduated.

They got out when nobody was hiring. Most of his class did not even have jobs upon graduation.

 

[krazykarl]

Quote from jtnet:

I live in west bloomfield hills and went to kettering univ at one point. a lot of engineeers

i got my degree from kettering(GMI)

 

[nutmeg]

"Doesn't it have the highest concentration of people from the Middle East in the nation?"

Pretty much. May have been one of those govt sanctioned resettlement programs for this to happen. Began in the 70's, the Arabs worked at the Ford Rouge plant 12 hour shifts 7 days a week, don't smoke don't drink send the money back home, more came over bought all the houses near the plant no one wanted.

 

[kinggyppo]

Quote from wilburbear:

Snake Pliskin was going to do a sequel - "Escape from Detroit", but Detroit isn't as pleasant and livable as the New York depicted in the original movie.

Focus groups also found it "not creditable" that anyone could remain alive in Detroit, much less "escape" from Detroit.

Good one, that's my kind of town!!

 

[mschey]

Quote from jem:

One question - if you were a company that could revitalize an area, what would make you move to detroit or anywhere in the rust belt.

I hate to be so blunt but these cities are located in grey, depressing, freeze your ass of areas because of one advantage that no longer applies ----boats. I would also be loathe to bring my company to a well unionized area. (I have nothing against unions-I am just stating business facts.)

Even local banks move their investment bankers to other cities.

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If you build it, they will come.

 

[tradermac]

No doubt...#1 is getting worse as crime creeps up in Royal Oak. The city paper paints a bleak outlook over the next 6 - 18 mos.

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

I live in Troy. The trend on the paycheck issue is not this area's friend right now. The layoffs and buy-outs have just begun to kick in.



Detroit has no chance at sustainable and profitable revitalization until they have:

1) Safety

2) Efficient city services

3) Much lower tax rates

4) More business investment

5) Effective and timely mass transit (not the joke that is the people mover)

and most importantly:

6) Good public schools



6 strikes for Detroit. Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are especially dreadful.

 

[wilburbear]

Quote from kinggyppo:

Good one, that's my kind of town!!

If Snake Pliskin passes on the sequel "Escape from Detroit", maybe they can get a special ops guy from one of those TV survival shows. He can do a night parachute drop into the city center with 50 Krugerrands, 10 cans of spam, and 1 anti-tank weapon. He can be extracted by Delta Force only if he survives 48 hours, and remains unsodomized.

 

[krazykarl]

Quote from wilburbear:

Snake Pliskin was going to do a sequel - "Escape from Detroit", but Detroit isn't as pleasant and livable as the New York depicted in the original movie.

Focus groups also found it "not creditable" that anyone could remain alive in Detroit, much less "escape" from Detroit.

And don't you forget it!

 

[krazykarl]

Quote from wilburbear:

He can be extracted by Delta Force only if he survives 48 hours, and remains unsodomized.

Unlikely. If he lands south of 6 mile, he's done.

 

[kinggyppo]

This is my favorite thing in Detroit. This is a town whose message is " don't f**k with me"!!