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re: What were some great American cities that turned into garbage places to live?
Posted on 5/30/20 at 1:30 am to fightin tigers
Posted on 5/30/20 at 1:30 am to fightin tigers
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Detroit is a solid place to live. Sorry y’all are poor
Definitely saw parts I wouldn't want to live in, but overall it was really cool. I could do downtown/corktown or some of the other places I don't remember the names of.
If we are including the burbs like Grosse Pointe (Woods) holy shite those are like Americana.
Detroit has some of the nicest suburbs of any metro area in America.
I think some people tend to forget that Detroit metro is still 4+ million people - in the same class as Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, et al. There is still a lot of money and a large middle class in the region - it's just not really in the city itself any longer, although some parts of Detroit are fine.
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Posted on 5/30/20 at 1:45 am to IronWolf
Detroit! Once a booming industrial city turned bankrupt after a certain group moved in and turned it into a hopeless ghetto by pillaging the resources and then abandoning it for the most part after depleting the riches. It went from almost 2 million in 1950 to people to 670k in 2010.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 3:08 am to IronWolf
Jackson MS was great town in the 50s and 60s. Even in the 70s was good. We know what happened later.
Newark NJ, was apparently a good town before the 1967 riots. That single event supposedly destroyed the city forever.
Newark NJ, was apparently a good town before the 1967 riots. That single event supposedly destroyed the city forever.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 5:55 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Mid to late 1800s.
Ah!
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:14 am to The Spleen
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They use all kinds of thinly veiled racist talk
You're confusing this for the truth.
If people point out statistics on population moving in one direction (i.e. more black people live in a neighborhood now), then you assume it's racist.
They're simply pointing out facts.
You're the racist for believing it was because blacks moved into the neighborhood.
Par for the course for white liberals.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:26 am to SCLibertarian
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Cries about racism, yet calls Roger white trash, all while ghetto trash are burning a dozen or more cities to the ground. The American liberal folks.
You of all people should not allow leftists-not progressives, to use that word. A classical liberal, you are. Take that word back.
Establishment Democrats-the ones who fooled an entire race of people into thinking “the great switch” happened, play plantation politics.
They don’t believe in liberty whatsoever.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:13 am to Pisco
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As far as big cities, Atlanta, Birmingham, Detroit are best examples.
Atlanta isn't a garbage place to live. Bham has done some nice things over the past 5-10 years to make it a decent place. And I've never been to detroit, so all I know of it is from the stories about when the auto industry shuttered. But I do know the Quicken Loans guy has invested a ton of money into downtown to make it better.
The city that comes to mind when I think of a once proud town that nobody wants to be in now is definitely Baltimore.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:38 am to upgrayedd
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I don't get it.
You got that part right.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:42 am to Marciano1
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I grew up in a really nice neighborhood (all white families) and everyone would ride bikes and play together.
Blacks moved in and it became a neighborhood filled with fights, drugs, break-ins and lots of loud music during the night. Kids could no longer ride bikes without coming across some gangsta talking shite.
I grew up in Sherwood Forest too. We may know each other.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:59 am to gatorrocks
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You're the racist for believing it was because blacks moved into the neighborhood.
Surprised it took this long for this brain dead take. I wasn’t born yesterday. I’ve been around racists my entire life. I know the coded words and language they use in public, while using the racist language in close company behind closed doors.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 8:06 am to The Spleen
Unfortunately to the ignorant in this country today, facts are racist. Political correctness has made people allergic to factual information. When you don’t deal in facts to analyze a situation, the situation only continues to deteriorate. The black community needs a come to Jesus meeting with themselves so that they can look in the mirror to see the source as well as the solution to the problem. Keep blaming it on Whitey and nothing is going to improve.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 8:06 am to The Spleen
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Posted on 5/30/20 at 8:16 am to PillPusher
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List begins and ends with Detroit
Detroit was held up as a beacon of American progress and prosperity prior to the race riots of the 1960’s. Seeing pictures from the early and mid 1900’s is shocking compared to the realities of the 1980s on.
You would be hard pressed to find any city in the world that fell as hard as Detroit without being impacted by a war.
The downtown area by the river is actually greatly improving now, but it will never again be what it was.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 8:16 am to AbuTheMonkey
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Detroit has some of the nicest suburbs of any metro area in America.
I think Detroit just gets shitted on , just because everyone else does. Much like new Yorkers or Ohioans assume everyone in the South is stupid, yet has never been here.
I have seen quite a number of nice areas of Detroit, been to a number of really neat brewpubs, all with great people.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 8:34 am to Geauxlden Eagle
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I grew up in Sherwood Forest too. We may know each other
Broadmoor is on the way back, Sherwood will follow. (I grew up in Sherwood as well, lol)
Posted on 5/30/20 at 9:19 am to jdd48
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NOLA is a place I love to visit,
NOLA was a shithole 20 yrs ago. Has regressed exponentially the last 5 yrs. NOLA has no identity nowadays
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