• Detroit money crisis causes most fire inspections to fall years behind
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Downtown Detroit is a fucking ghost town. Take the People Mover and you can sometimes be the only guy sitting on a train with tracks that now oddly snake around empty lots as if there were buildings there. I really would not recommend anyone invest in the $1 Detroit housing this late in the game. Whatever's left is a condemned wreck.
[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/130120/Capture050.png[/IMG] Cheap homes, but the property taxes are about $1000 a year. What a shame, I would buy 20.
And then Facepunch purchased the entire city of Detroit.
My poor city. Detroit is only bad in the forgotten regions, some of the neighborhoods are in desperate need of saving. Towards the GM headquarters and Campus Martius are absolutely beautiful places, same with the area by Joe Louis arena, Ford Field, etc. It's just a shame that the public doesn't see the good side of Detroit. Just a few weeks ago I took my woman down to Campus Martius to go ice skating. Easily the coolest thing I've done all year. [editline]20th January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Fourm Shark;39285975]I think it could be good to just buy up massive plots of houses for cheep, demo them, and hang onto the property. Land is worth something.[/QUOTE] They're actually planning to do that in coming years. They're going to build nice apartments/condos or whatever people want to use the land for. The ONLY good thing our mayor has done so far...
Someone should definitely just buy a whole isolated run down neighbourhood, restore it to some degree and turn it into a paintball arena. Then staff it with locals, obviously, do really really cheap games like 10 dollars per hour and like 5-10 dollars per 500 paintballs and shit and then invest the profits into the local area to make it more desirable to live in and thus get more customers. Man if I had the money I would so fucking do that.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;39290002]Someone should definitely just buy a whole isolated run down neighbourhood, restore it to some degree and turn it into a paintball arena. Then staff it with locals, obviously, do really really cheap games like 10 dollars per hour and like 5-10 dollars per 500 paintballs and shit and then invest the profits into the local area to make it more desirable to live in and thus get more customers. Man if I had the money I would so fucking do that.[/QUOTE] Well I mean, it's like that right now, just with real guns. Grab your riot gear and have a blast!
We could always buy up four blocks of homes plus another one block radius around that and then make the biggest bonfire in Detroit history.
Now Hardcore Pawn doesn't seem so fake if conditions are like that.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;39286895]"Negro ruined Detroit" What.[/QUOTE] I think there is supposed to be a comma after negro lol. They said "white flight" is somthing that happened to Detrioit, which I can assume means all of the white people left. But I'm still yet to figure out why that matters or what that has to do with Detroit's state of decay.
[QUOTE=MIPS;39291959]We could always buy up four blocks of homes plus another one block radius around that and then make the biggest bonfire in Detroit history.[/QUOTE] I doubt we can beat [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot"]that[/url].
I thought the title meant 'fire inspections' as in 'inspecting places where there was a fire', so I was imagining some building built on a place where the previous building burned down years before, with police going "Welp, doesn't [I]look[/I] like there was a fire here. Damn middle schoolers, I'm going to go back and tell 'em not to lie to me like that! ...Where did they all end up going to college, again?"
[QUOTE=Mingebox;39286895]"Negro ruined Detroit" What.[/QUOTE] [quote=Video Description]The Zionists are deliberately destroying all Western countries! They immigrated into our nations and then secretly declared war upon us![/quote]
[QUOTE=Mingebox;39286895]"Negro ruined Detroit" What.[/QUOTE] It's not an uncommon sentiment to see around here, mostly with the generations that were alive during the "white flight" and the riots. [QUOTE=UziXxX;39293435]They said "white flight" is somthing that happened to Detrioit, which I can assume means all of the white people left. But I'm still yet to figure out why that matters or what that has to do with Detroit's state of decay.[/QUOTE] That's pretty much what "white flight" is (the white people leaving). When the Interstate Highway Act made the roads that let people live out of the city, the city started bleeding population. People who could afford it usually left (and usually were white, since most immigrants and African Americans had come to the city looking for work, and couldn't afford to leave). This took money out of the city, since people working in the city and living far away pay taxes to somewhere else, and eventually the same people weren't even working in the city. The decay process was only accelerated by factors like industry moving away, racism (both ways), and the riots (which were linked to the racism), all drawing more people away from Detroit. So, the decay was, ironically, started by the same auto industry that had made the city famous. Now even more manufacturing and industry has fled, taking more people with them, so the city has even more abandoned land to tend to with even less money from taxes.
maybe if the state actually paid detroit some of the millions of dollars they're owed then this wouldn't be happening
Is it true that packs of wild dogs roam Detroit
[QUOTE=axelord157;39297830]Is it true that packs of wild dogs roam Detroit[/QUOTE] A while ago some people claimed it was 50,000 abandoned strays living in Detroit, but the math didn't work out.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;39290002]Someone should definitely just buy a whole isolated run down neighbourhood, restore it to some degree and turn it into a paintball arena. Then staff it with locals, obviously, do really really cheap games like 10 dollars per hour and like 5-10 dollars per 500 paintballs and shit and then invest the profits into the local area to make it more desirable to live in and thus get more customers. Man if I had the money I would so fucking do that.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing except my concept is Zombie Town. The locals, on bath salts, would be chasing around the players, trust me, you do not want to get caught in this game. You shoot them with paintballs, and there would be 'safe zones' in the arena where even a bath salted zombie can't get you. The only thing is there is only limited room in the safe zone, so if only three people fit and you're the fourth person to reach it... It's like playing musical chairs but with a chance of get your flesh eaten if you lose.
[QUOTE=Medevilae;39298116]Chrysler paid back all of the bailout money, and has 0 factories in Korea[/QUOTE] No one is saying the didn't pay the bailout money back? If you go to any Dodge lot most of their cars have transmissions made in Korea. Only about 58% of the Dodge Dart is made in America. [editline]20th January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Medevilae;39298116] and it's hardly a ghost town- it's the 18th most populated city in the United States[/QUOTE] No one is suggesting it is unpopulated. It has nearly 1 million people living there. But a city that once held 2 million people that now only has 800,000... that's half of the people gone. That is a lot of abandoned buildings.
[QUOTE=Medevilae;39298116]Detroit unemployment isn't even half of what you're suggesting it is, and it's hardly a ghost town- it's the 18th most populated city in the United States[/QUOTE] It has lost a gigantic portion of its population, especially when compared to the region around it (although a significant portion of the population is probably lost to the metro area): [IMG]http://www.epa.gov/med/grosseile_site/indicators/images/se-mi-and-detroit-population.gif[/IMG] It's not a ghost town, but huge areas of it look like one now. The decay is really sad. Seeing landmarks like Fort Wayne facing blight, and watching places like the Belle Isle Aquarium close down (it did reopen recently, which is nice) isn't fun.
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