Detroit shows way to beat inner city blues (A nascent turnaround is slowly blooming)

Financial Times ^ | 04/10/2013 | Richard Florida

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I bet he’s very careful about where he rides his bike and plays his guitar and does his urbanizing.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"They can’t get worse."

Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, ever say that. Things can ALWAYS get worse. I learned that the hard way.

[Squawk 8888]

Really? I wasn’t aware of any. Probably in the ‘burbs.

[dangus]

LOL! Each and every one of those “nevers” were worthwhile, too!

[dangus]

>> And what kind of real estate do you own there you’re trying to sell? <<

Anything. All these damned hippies moving next door are worse than the crack dens. Just kidding; I don’t live or own property anywhere near Michigan.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I was a bit worried I might be wasting JimRob’s bandwith with it, but I thought it was important to emphasize. I just well remember the time the words, “It can’t get any worse” came out my mouth. I was quite depressed and had just been through a distressing ordeal...

Turned out it was like rolling down a bumpy, 100-foot hill. What I didn’t know was that 100-foot hill was atop Mount Everest, and I was about to keep on rollin’... right down to the Marianas Trench. I learned never say that phrase “can’t” ever again. Remember when a lot of us said that with Bubba ? We learned.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I notice when they run ads for Michigan tourism (and we get them down in Tennessee), they just show the beaches and lakes way north in the U.P. They’d be nuts to emphasize Motown. Sadly, the latter is the perception for most folks outside the state.

[Mikey_1962]

I have been hearing this crap about the young urban educated saving Detroit since the late sixties when the hippies took over Plumb Street and sold bongs and incense to white suburbanites.

Here is the truth: Detroit stood in the post war era as a Colossus of manufacturing. Europe was flat on its back and Asia was a basket case.

If you wanted a car or a stove or most anything manufactured you came to Detroit. Unions and Corporate Detroit never thought the rest of the world would recover and they signed contracts that reflected this distorted view of life.

Then: the riots. 1967 was the beginning of the end.

It will never be what it was because it was a distorted market.