Detroit Dissolving: "A Hurricane Without Water"

American Digest ^ | May 30, 2014 | Gerard Vanderleun

[QT3.14]

Contrast and compare the years since 2009 in Detroit according to Google and Bing: [Photos]

[Fledermaus]

Calm down Francis!

[RegulatorCountry]

There are virtually abandoned mill villages scattered across NC and the south. The urban areas are mostly doing well. The rural communities not so much, and some have collapsed. Trade policy made it possible.

[cripplecreek]

Sorry I don’t do group thought.

[Parley Baer]

Looks like the jungle is taking back Detroit.

[RayChuang88]

This is what you get with the unfettered political corruption of the Democrats--in this case under Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick.

Ironically, just outside Wayne County are some of the richest counties in the USA. Filmmaker Michael Moore, who lives in one of those very rich counties, just can't figure out that it was the government of the City of Detroit that caused the city to collapse to economic and political ruin.

[Pontiac]

The Morlocs are consuming the Eloi at a rapid rate!

Actually that is a rather poor metaphor.

The Morlocs were industrius creatures that supplied the Eloi with everything they needed to live. The Eloi did nothing to support themselves. They deserved to be eaten like the cows they were.

When I think of the Eloi I think of the Welfare looters that are destroying the city and forcing the Morlocs to leave the city.

[Dallas59]

Shame. What happens when government runs things.

[boycott]

We need to build a big wall around Detroit and turn it into one big prison. Let them sort it out.

Extending the fence to include Dearborn wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

[QT3.14]

Typical of liberals. They destory everything they touch.

Educator Bill Lind once said along those lines, “Political Correctness is
intellectual AIDS. Everything it touches it sickens and eventually kills.”

[thackney]

antz Woodlands is transforming blight to beauty as vacant, abandoned properties are converted to fields for new agricultural production.

http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/introduction.html

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I would recommend sticking to ag production that is not easily stolen.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not the last 60.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad’s brothers lived in Detroit and worked for Ford on the line and in purchasing. They got out before the riots and actually sold their homes.

This is so sad...

[cripplecreek]

I’ve got an area of empty farms just south of me in Hillsdale county. The houses and outbuildings are still standing but they’re obviously empty and the lawns and fields are becoming overgrown with brush.

15 or 20 years ago they were thriving farms. I happened to get down that way a year ago and got kind of lost because it was so different and all the landmarks hidden by new growth.

I’ve been looking around in cities all across the nation in google street view and I’m finding areas like that in pretty much all medium to large cities.

[QT3.14]

Looks like the jungle is taking back Detroit.

It reminded me of scenes from Nat Geo's 3-hour program several years ago
Aftermath: Billions of People Gone.

The showed examples of how cities would look over different time periods
if humans disappeared.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I’ve been looking around in cities all across the nation in google street view and I’m finding areas like that in pretty much all medium to large cities."

There are places in Seattle where I get lost because of all the NEW construction; I've lost all my old landmarks. But this is business development for companies like amazon.com. However, a lot of the old middle-class neighborhoods are deteriorating because people can't afford to properly maintain the property (or don't want to). These neighborhoods will probably become multi-unit neighborhoods instead of single family. Twenty years later, they might look like some of those Detroit neighborhoods.

[RegulatorCountry]

In cities with a growing population and healthy job market, you’ll only find it in high crime areas or areas slated for demolition to accommodate highway expansion. In cities losing population it starts in the same high crime areas but takes root everywhere but the most desirable neighborhoods because houses are so hard to sell when there are no new residents to support demand. Then, it spreads like a cancer. Detroit takes a beating for this and it is the prime example, but as you point out it’s far from the only example. Toledo, Ohio is bad. Dayton too. Cleveland. Pittsburgh. St. Louis. Baltimore. On and on.

[PapaBear3625]

The Morlocs are consuming the Eloi at a rapid rate!

The Morlocs were the ones who worked (representing the working class). The Eloi didn't work, they ate the food the Morlocs provided until it was time to "harvest" them.

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[grania]

re: Cleveland is bad

Cleveland has some really bad areas, for sure, but it's not in the same category as the worst cities. The current mayor has done some smart things to keep money flowing into Cleveland.

[Celtic Conservative]

That first photo, is it palmer woods? the reason I ask is I’ve been in palmer woods and it is indeed as beautiful as it looks. But, as good as it looks you still don’t dare hang out outside there after hours. Just an observation.

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