I remember the last time I drove through Metro Detroit (the area surrounding Detroit itself including Pontiac). The way the person I was with put it was "this place is what happens when you walk away from a game of SimCity and forget to pause it". There's a sort of tragic beauty to it all but for the most part it's just sad to see.
want the destruction of an american city, look at gary indiana
[QUOTE=gottifour;48728151]want the destruction of an american city, look at gary indiana[/QUOTE]
Mad Max was filmed on location in Gary.
[QUOTE=gottifour;48728151]want the destruction of an american city, look at gary indiana[/QUOTE]
holy shit, me and my friends in high school used to make jokes all the time about gary indiana after we drove through it one time on a trip, i had no idea other people knew about it
It's hard to believe how much a town can go to shit.
I mean looking at wikipedia, Gary only has a population of 80 thousand.
Not to mention it sounds like a hellhole in terms of crime
[url]http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Indiana/Gary-781918/Warnings_or_Dangers-Gary-TG-C-1.html[/url]
Like what the fuck, it sounds like an African warzone or something
How does this shit happen
The town I spent some of my life in in Poland is a similar case too. During the PRL, in other words during communist Poland, this down was thriving with activity. Industry was huge here, and it only appeared to grow. People from all around were asked to move here so that they could work here. We made shoes, meds, chemicals, all sorts of thing really. But then, after Solidarity did their thing and communism fell, a lot changed. It's a complex issue, but to put it simply, throughout all of Poland there was chaos (you don't start being a democracy just any day), and in that chaos people took advantage of the rough transition and essentially and technically not illegaly stole a lot of asserts formerly belonging to the government. That, along with corrupt and incompetent polititians, ruined this town. It was one of the first towns in the region to even get internet access back in the day, nowadays it's a forgotten shithole. 50 thousand people live here now, which the city can barely support, since they're a remnant from the communist bubble economy.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48727529][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhg-CNjA0ug[/media][/QUOTE]
This video certainly shows that shit is like in the outskirts of Detroit, but Detroit itself if beginning to rebuild (at the expense of the poor, unfortunately). Unfortunately, there's many examples of this sort of decay in Michigan- Pontiac, Benton Harbor, Flint, Saginaw, Detroit, Inkster, and a handful of others.
[QUOTE=Zombii;48729474]holy shit, me and my friends in high school used to make jokes all the time about gary indiana after we drove through it one time on a trip, i had no idea other people knew about it[/QUOTE]
Same, I drove through it once and I was scared cause I had the nicest car there. I was driving in my mom's (at that point 6 year old) Nissan Murano and people were looking at us.
[QUOTE=Zombii;48729474]holy shit, me and my friends in high school used to make jokes all the time about gary indiana after we drove through it one time on a trip, i had no idea other people knew about it[/QUOTE]
I literally live 25 minutes away.
I have to pass through it every trip I make to Chicago.
East St. Louis is another rough city. If you've never been there, keep it that way.
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I went through there once when I was down for a Cardinals game. Crossing over the Mississippi is like going into another country.
i live right next to gary and i can tell you the difference between there and anywhere else is apalling
its like stepping into the epicenter of a crater
This is sadly what happens when you build a town or city around a single major business, when they pull out everything collapses. Just can't rely on it last.
it looks worse than my sunfire
Ya Pontiac is a real shit hole. What people forget though is that metro detroit also has some of the wealthiest suburbs you'll ever see. As of April of this year the unemployment rate was 5.1 percent, lower than New York, LA, Cihcago, and Atlanta. Michigan also takes 4th place in the country for high tech jobs.
It's like any major city, really. It has bad parts and good parts, rich and poor, safe and dangerous... it's just that in Detroit the lines of division are more clear than most. There are streets where you can stand on one side and be in front of luxurious mansions with rich families in them, and the other side of the street is burnt down ghetto.
[QUOTE=gottifour;48728151]want the destruction of an american city, look at gary indiana[/QUOTE]
don't listen to this guy this is terrible advice. don't EVER go to gary
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;48742538]don't listen to this guy this is terrible advice. don't EVER go to gary[/QUOTE]
nobody goes to gary indiana, thats why people have to try to trick people into going to gary indiana
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[QUOTE=J!NX;48736251]it looks worse than my sunfire[/QUOTE]
hey, even though every surface of that car rusted, including the plastic, it was a damn simple car and mine is still running in the family
don't let the AC run out of coolant though, jumping the compressor is a bitch
The group uploading this gives me the creeps, just like the city they showed.
[QUOTE=Sableye;48743139]nobody goes to gary indiana, thats why people have to try to trick people into going to gary indiana[/QUOTE]
this sounds like attempted murder by proxy
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