Detroit Looking At Downsizing To Save City

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Detroit Looking At Downsizing To Save City
- Posted by zeug666 promoted 4 months 17 days ago [link]
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Officials are looking to turn the once thriving city into a semi-rural landscape by relocating remaining residents and turn vacant areas into farmland. Crazy enough to work?

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- thisisjeff
- 4 months 18 days ago
- Comment #2572
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Plant cotton.
- seahawks
- 4 months 18 days ago
- Comment #2201
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^ ouch.
- mrbig4545
- 4 months 18 days ago
- Comment #6391
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why not, huge sprawling industrial cities are sooo 19th century
- Scumbag
- 4 months 17 days ago
- Comment #4461
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Just nuke it, you cant polish a turd
- Wolffe
- 4 months 17 days ago
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Yeah from what i've heard detroit is like the worst civilized western city in existence. Would not want to work, play, or live there, ever.
- Beelzebub
- 4 months 17 days ago
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this is kind of amazing... I have lived in a growing city my whole life (brisbane is one of the fastest growing and most popular cities in Australia attracting thousands of faggy southern immigrants every year) and the concept that a city could shrink is just beyond my personal experience.
- mrbig4545
- 4 months 17 days ago
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^ yeah, well im from manchester, one of the most redeveloped areas in the uk in the last 10 years, and let me tell you theres more and more faggy fuckers coming up here and being bankers and that shit, walking about in suits, its not really on.
- Beelzebub
- 4 months 17 days ago
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^ you still have banks? I thought they came crashing down along with your economy?
- hogo
- 4 months 17 days ago
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^
the first national bank of "money under the matres"
- mrbig4545
- 4 months 17 days ago
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"Beelzebub" wrote:
^ you still have banks? I thought they came crashing down along with your economy?

we gave them £160bn public money, you know, coz banks need it, but they cant fix the potholes in the roads, or fix the hospitals, schools etc etc
- bobalou
- 4 months 16 days ago
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Was reading an article in the Guardian today about Detroit. Mad place, and fascinating. There's a bbc2 documentary on saturday night about the city- 'Requiem for Detroit?'. Look out for it bitches.

guardian.co.uk - Detroit: the last days
- munkimania
- 4 months 16 days ago
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"One in five houses now stand empty. Property prices have fallen 80% or more in Detroit over the last three years. A three-bedroom house on Albany Street is still on the market for $1."

that cant be right, can it?

i'd buy that for a dollar
- bobalou
- 4 months 16 days ago
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^ Apparently about a third of the city is just vacant wasteland.
- munkimania
- 4 months 16 days ago
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yeah i just read it. mad. like an experiment in how long nature takes to reclaim a city.
doesnt look like it takes long either.
- Beelzebub
- 4 months 16 days ago
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Truly fascinating. I think that (and related articles) is the most interesting thing I have read in ages

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