Ghost Cities Of 2100

Forbes ^ | 11 June 2007 | Elisabeth Eaves

[BBell]

San Francisco used to be a conservative respectable Republican city. Man how things change.

[herMANroberts]

There is plenty of water north of socal. When Tom Bradley was mayor of LA he asked Washington to sell water to LA. He would have built a pipeline along the ocean floor. The same as been proposed Alaska to socal.

The legislature of WA laughed him out of town. Subsequently a million or so people moved from Cal to Seattle area.

Now this is probably not cause and effect, but it is an example of what will happen. Either move the water to the people or the people will move to the water.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

That was cool!, thanks.

[Clemenza]

Another fact about Kearny: It has the oldest continously existing youth soccer program in the United States. Kearny High has won the state soccer championship more than any other school in the state.

Of course, winning a state championship in soccer is somewhere between winning the frozen custard eating contest at Corrs in Point Pleasant and winning the highest teased hair in Lodi.

A major contribution of Scottish immigrants to New Jersey, eaten regularly throughout the state:

[Alouette]

What is the site you are referring to?

[ken21]

n’orleans and san fran

can terminate

as far as i’m concerned.

bye!

[BBell]

I know what you mean. I used to live in Nebraska and the town I lived in didn’t have much to keep the young folks there. A lot of them went in the service or off to college and never came back except to visit. Omaha and Lincoln were a destination too.

[AnnaZ]

Nice way to direct people to a neo-Nazi white nationalist site without volunteering the url. I have a feeling that links to that site aren't really appreciated here.

What are you talking about, ya loon.

[BBell]

http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm

[fieldmarshaldj]

Almost every Northern & Western city was once Republican, with the notable exception of NYC, which was always Democrat, even back to the days of Jefferson, only rarely did the opposition get a Mayor or City Council majority. Los Angeles, San Francisco (and the East Bay !), Portland, Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis (which my cousin ruled for 12 years as a Republican from 1913-25), Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston... You get the idea.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Soccer just has never caught on in the U.S. has it ? ;-D

[BobS]

"One of the nicer drives in Newark is around Branch Brook Park when the cherry blossoms bloom."

I remember that park. Not a strongly as I remember South Mountain Reservation with those hippies that alsmost burned it down. I was born in Newark in '55 when my folks lived on Bigelow St. My dad moved us to Scranton after I graduated HS in '73 from Irvington. Great work opportunities there. That's after seeing Newark burn down twice, a school riot and hanging around with a bunch of hippies. Bad influences.

[mamelukesabre]

I am currently in Iowa. I used to live in nebraska. In iowa, the towns seem to do a little better. I think it’s because there are no big cities to draw people away. But they are still shrinking. School districts are merging, schools closing down, etc.

In nebraska it’s downright scary. I do allot of work in small town of iowa and nebraska. I’d say half the towns in nebraska that are under 10,000 will be gone from this earth before I will. It seems to me the only thing keeping some of them going is a VFW post or an elks lodge. These kinds of establishments themselves are on their way out. They will be gone themselves once the baby boomers are too old to go to them.

[Clemenza]

As I believe I told you not too long ago, the hippies have been replaced by the gays in South Mountain. They can have it, as all that place ever brought me were ruined shoes and sprained ankles (the Watchungs are very rocky).

[BobS]

There are a couple of places I’ve been to that would be great to retire in: Wichita, KS., Almaria, Spain, and Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

[BobS]

I remember:)

[razorback-bert]

All these buildings.....clean.......neat.......obvious that a lot of time and money had been expended to clean up the city center, etc.....and just no one around. It was like walking around a ghost town.

I see that in many small towns and small cities that I visit. Lots of bond and government grants gone to waste.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wichita just dumped its Hispanic Republican Mayor for a Black liberal Democrat, so it looks like it’s headed downhill (though having visited there in the mid ‘90s, I thought it was a ghastly boring place — dead downtown, no attractions, terrible traffic), so probably cross that one off. Both Spain and Scotland are ruled by Socialists, so those are out, too. :-\

Poland is probably your best bet for a well-run European country. It turns out they ARE the smartest folks on the continent, so with all the jokes we’ve heard throughout our lives, they’re the ones having the last laugh. ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nicollo. Monsoon failure may have played a role, as it has in more recent centuries in India. Climate change may have weakened the Harappan civ, while at the same time a cold snap in Central Asia shook loose the Aryans. It's not unlikely that the Harappan civ had far-flung trade, so the Aryans would have known where to go. Of course, there is a nationalist view that the Aryans didn't come from anywhere, but are indigenous -- it is a view I ignore.

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