Median Home Prices In Detroit Fall To $6,000. Get one for as low as $100

[kayman23]

Sigh! Detroit is the result of what happens when racism runs-a-mok. Yeah, this city should be more diverse, but of course the powers that be would rather see that place rot.

 

[belamy]

But that would mean having to live in the United States.

Or the backyard of Canada, depending on how you look at it.

 

[voyager1994]

JUBville sounds like a very good idea

 

[FullMonty]

and this is what you get close to :



then there's this:



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[metta]

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wooohhh.....it looks like something out of a bad movie or war movie. I have never seen anything like that. Very sad.

 

[belamy]

Are those blue signs on the images supposed to be read?

Such a cool city...

 

[David DeVour]

People tried making a gay neighborhood out of the Palmer Park area in Detroit. The crime chased them out and the dream was dead. Instead, gays moved to the suburb of Ferndale or we're scattered throughout the area. The gay bars were numerous along Woodward between 6 Mile and 8 Mile until the crime scattered them to the suburbs.

The police in the city of Detroit will be happy to help you- six hours after everyone is dead and the perpetrators are long gone.

It is possible now to get a house for $20,000 in the suburbs with good public services. I love downtown Detroit and and the area attractions, but living inside most of the Detroit neighborhoods the cost of having your house robbed every few weeks outweighs the $6,000 price tag. However, you can get a house in a working class suburb and hit the freeways or Eight Mile to get to the cultural area, the Riverwalk, Henry Ford Museum, all nude dancing in Windsor, or go to the lakes.

I really wish the inner city besides downtown was in better shape but I'm not going to take a chance and let reality hit me with a lead pipe and take my wallet.

 

[metta]

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Don't give up. There have been major improvements in downtown LA that people thought they would never see. To tell you the truth, after the LA riots, a lot of the people that caused the problems moved out of the area to other places (I have no idea where.....could be jail....if so...that is scarry iwth the current ca budget...but don't really know where they went) and in many areas, a rejuvination has been happening (it has slowed down since the downturn in the economy though).

 

[David DeVour]

Okay, I'll keep hope alive. It's good to hear that L.A. bounced back after the riots.

 

[chatolandia]

We can only hope for the gentrification of that city

but I doubt it

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

They're probably doing that here in California in the "Inland Empire" which is just a name for "Manufactured towns between LA and Palm Springs that nobody wants to live in."

They threw up lots of houses that nobody wanted to live in and speculators snatched them all up. They're now sitting vacant and unrentable in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah, sucks that houses in Detroit are going for nothing. But there's plenty of ghost towns that used to be boom towns... things change.

 

[Ares]

People tried making a gay neighborhood out of the Palmer Park area in Detroit. The crime chased them out and the dream was dead. Instead, gays moved to the suburb of Ferndale or we're scattered throughout the area. The gay bars were numerous along Woodward between 6 Mile and 8 Mile until the crime scattered them to the suburbs.

I heard Ferndale Pride was really good this year.

People only live in Detroit if they can't afford to move to the suburbs, which leaves a very tough population living in the city. It's not a happy place. They are trying to build up the downtown area and around the Woodward, Wayne State University area, but still, when you bulld nice places surrounded by a dump, and there isn't enough law enforcement to begin with, it's basically a big sign "come rob here."

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

I lived in Ann Arbour in the 70s for a year. And Detroit was a shit hole then, too.

If they bulldoze the whole city, nobody will care.

 

[Ares]

If they bulldoze the whole city, nobody will care.

Most of the houses and a lot of the buildings are abandoned anyway, so I think the only people who would notice would be the homeless people living in them.

 

[David DeVour]

I lived in Ann Arbour in the 70s for a year. And Detroit was a shit hole then, too.

If they bulldoze the whole city, nobody will care.

Downtown is a lot better now than it was then, and as Ares said, the Wayne State area.

When I went to Chicago, I was blown away by how many people were walking the sidewalks downtown. That was back when our downtown was like a post-apocalyptic ghost town. Nowadays the downtown Detroit area is full of people for festivals, the Riverwalk, and whatever.

So, keep downtown and bulldoze the rest.

 

[metta]

What Should We Do With a Semi-Abandoned U.S. City?

Farming?

http://www.infrastructurist.com/2010/01/13/what-should-we-do-with-a-semi-abandoned-us-city/

 

[metta]

The Ruins Of Detroit

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html

 

[Lube]

So are all those futuristic post-apocalyptic movie scripts written by native Detroitans? Those photos are creepy, to say the least.

 

[radioian]

WHAT a dump. But we have the same here in Great Britain--they are towns called Liverpool and Nottingham, where the black and white drug gangs are running amok and have turned the areas into shiteholes. It now seems that the only other people left there are old people in social housing, who never worked to buy their own, so they could have sold up when the area started to go down the pan and move away to a better area,who are stuck there-- and single women with 22 kids of all Nationalities, and on the Social benefits. Very high numbers of people claiming Government benefits for "bad backs" and "lazyness".........I think you Americans call them "Trailer park trash"? Here are some pictures for you.....

 

[radioian]

AH! No pictures for you then! Just google the areas, and you will see what I mean....