Good place to buy cheap property.
Maybe, but do you want to live there?
(I've never been there, but that article doesn't sound to appealing to me.)
I can think of a lot of cheap places I'd buy before Detroit.
Good place to buy cheap property.
Maybe, but do you want to live there?
(I've never been there, but that article doesn't sound to appealing to me.)
I can think of a lot of cheap places I'd buy before Detroit.
Detroits population is less than half of what it used to be. 1.9 Million in 1950 and 700,000 now. Good place to buy cheap property.
Yeah, because property always only goes up in value.
Is it like when a corporation files for bankruptcy and another corporation buys them at rock bottom prices? We could pool our money and start NBRtown. Have our own hockey team. That cool fist sculpture. Lots of angry poor people.
Is it like when a corporation files for bankruptcy and another corporation buys them at rock bottom prices? We could pool our money and start NBRtown. Have our own hockey team. That cool fist sculpture. Lots of angry poor people.
LOL
Maybe, but do you want to live there?
(I've never been there, but that article doesn't sound to appealing to me.)
I can think of a lot of cheap places I'd buy before Detroit.
I'd live there. I know a few people who live there and they say it's not so bad to live there. Plus, if you're into arts and a DIY type community, Detroit has that seriously going for them. It's surprisingly vibrant, arts wise (the cheapness and empty building really help here).
Yeah?
Some additional pics of Detroit decay.
Detroit Decay
Detroit to me was always the go to place to see live concerts (growing up in South Western Ontario) So many amazing artist have come out of Detroit.
"only the good riders wipe out on the easy stuff" - Heathen
DETROIT - The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal court Thursday, laying the groundwork for a historic effort to bail out a city that is sinking under billions of dollars in debt and decades of mismanagement, population flight and loss of tax revenue.
The bankruptcy filing makes Detroit the largest city in U.S. history to do so.
The filing begins a 30- to 90-day period that will determine whether the city is eligible for Chapter 9 protection and define how many claimants might compete for the limited settlement resources that Detroit has to offer. The bankruptcy petition would seek protection from creditors and unions who are renegotiating $18.5 billion in debt and other liabilities.
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who in June released a plan to restructure the city's debt and obligations that would leave many creditors with much less than they are owed, has warned consistently that if negotiations hit an impasse, he would move quickly to seek bankruptcy protection.
I'd live there. I know a few people who live there and they say it's not so bad to live there. Plus, if you're into arts and a DIY type community, Detroit has that seriously going for them. It's surprisingly vibrant, arts wise (the cheapness and empty building really help here).
So the hipster culture accepts poverty as "cool" nowadays. Good to have goals, they say.
[QUOTE=heckler's better 1/2;2766587]Some additional pics of Detroit decay.
URL="[http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html"]Detroit Decay[/URL]
Detroit to me was always the go to place to see live concerts (growing up in South Western Ontario) So many amazing artist have come out of Detroit.[/QUOTE]
Speaking of demise of cities. You recall this place?
So the hipster culture accepts poverty as "cool" nowadays. Good to have goals, they say.
No. It has nothing to do with hipsters (the people I know who live there aren't hipsters but actually people who ride BMX and have started a pretty great DIY spot in a park: http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/brush-park-bmx-extreme-sports-in-an-abandoned-park.php). And what does art have to do with hipsters? I'm an artist (at least I think so) and I'm not a hipster (not even like being called a hipster is a bad thing anyways, especially when you go back to the root of the word where it originally came from). I don't think they accept poverty as cool (nor do they really live in poverty much) but when you're an artist, you don't make much so you do tend to navigate to a place where housing is cheap. It just happens a bunch of artists, punks, and like minded people who tend to pay attention to culture and care about it, have navigated towards Detroit because it is cheap to live/squat/etc. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Detroit also has a very good art museum/collection, but that may now be under threat because of this but hopefully they can keep the collection they have. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Project Plus they have this which adds to the art scene. Detroit most likely will be some sort of arts/culture hub in the future because of how cheap the city is, and (sadly) how in ruins a lot of the buildings and stuff areā¦
Yeah?
So the hipster culture accepts poverty as "cool" nowadays. Good to have goals, they say.
Must spread rep. God damn liberal hippie douchebags with no intentions of ever becoming a productive member of society.
That's the problem with cities, they're refuges for the weak, the fish that didn't evolve.
I don't want to google this - sounds like a thing that NSMB will be better at.
tar smoking hipsters
i'd actually liek to take a trip there and explore the dead part of the city.
Been there, quite a bit actually, Although quite a few years ago. Used to get billeted there a lot when I was down for sport. Flint too.
Thanks for putting this up Sync its an awesome film and really brought back memories.
Truly remarkable people there, like the documentary reflects on. I can remember a very unique sadness and aura of defeat in places there though. Never forgot it. Very humbling.
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