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Largest U.S. Cities Are Becoming Cesspools Of Filth, Decay And Wretchedness
Topic Started: May 25, 2012, 12:32 pm (1,262 Views)
Blessedx4
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I've read the majority of these articles mentioned in this ariticle elsewhere - was just reading the article about Detroit yesterday. The problem is that cities are broke- they are dealing with large swaths of areas sparsely or not even populated. But still getting lights and other services. The goal is to turn out the lights or stop services to force people into more populated areas. _ that's part of the issue here.


Turn Out The Lights - The Largest U.S. Cities Are Becoming Cesspools Of Filth, Decay And Wretchedness
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Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world. Sadly, that is no longer the case. Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rotting and decaying. Cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland were all once places where middle class American workers thrived and raised their families.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/turn-out-the-lights-the-largest-u-s-cities-are-becoming-cesspools-of-filth-decay-and-wretchedness
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Blessedx4
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also crime is driving people out of some areas. You also see streets of empty shopping centers, run down, often vandalized. That's happening in areas in the Birmingham area. I'm sure that's happening elsewhere too.
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PlentyForgiven
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Police depts closed for 16 hours everyday? Yikes. I see lots and lots of store vacancies and the roads are going to potholes. It's kind of surprising since so much of the city depends on the military bases which are still here.

I couldn't handle living in gangs and no lights, etc. I think I'd turn the key to the house over to the bank and move into a more safe area.

Have you seen the movie Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood? Sort of the same story. Good movie but only if you can watch on network tv where they blip out the profanity.
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bopeep1909
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Yes,some areas are becoming unhabitable. :ohbrother
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Heather

Oh, I've lived in some BAD areas.

My husband says God has me here to "minister to the sinisters". :pound

I hope I see a couple recipients in Heaven one day.
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bopeep1909
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I have had my opportunities to talk with some of the homeless that a person would go :leery at.I like to step back just a little ways so nothing white jumps out at me.I can ask"Do you know Jesus Christ the risen Son of God?".
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Rainbo
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I lived in New Orleans back before Katrina, and I can tell you that it's people being forced out of the city, they may not want to leave but they feel they have to because of high rent and crime

In New Orleans the rent in a decent neighborhood started around $750 for a single bedroom shotgun duplex. Middle class people couldn't afford that, so they had 2 choices move out of the city or move into a poor crime ridden area. They effectively were running off the middle class. The middle class moved across the lake or river, or they moved into the neighboring parishes. As people moved out no one was moving in to take their place. Then Katrina happened, and now from what I see of rental prices it's worse. Rent is one of the reasons I never moved back, along with crime, and having no desire to live that close to the coast.

From what I hear only around half the population returned after Katrina, and the poor neighborhoods which were the worse hit by the flood never really recovered. Last time I was there in the poorer areas of the city they would have one or two renovated houses to a block.

The upper class neighborhoods look great, the French Quarter has pretty much recovered, so has Audubon Park and Zoo.
Edited by Rainbo, May 25, 2012, 7:29 pm.
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LadySharon
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Cat Lady
I admit I never liked cities I tend to be uneasy when in one - that is a downtown area.
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raml
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Detroit and Cleveland are the democrats fault. They basically picked the cities clean running off any middle class from them and now there are mostly welfare recipients there because they can't get out. There are no jobs for them to get off welfare and get out of those cities. The democrats have been running these cities since the beginning of their downfall and can't lie and say it isn't their fault. When my parents were first married they lived in Detroit and were able to travel all over the city now none of my family still living in the suburbs there will even drive the freeway over the city for fear of being car jacked. My brother stopped driving around Detroit after he had been robbed at gunpoint twice when a person jumped in his car at a light he never remembered to lock all his doors he just quit going near the city limits of Detroit as most people now do. It is a shame the homes in west Detroit use to be beautiful but now are getting terribly run down. I use to get on a bus when I was a teen and go shop in Detroit at Hudsons it was so much fun and now no one can do that anymore. I really can't stand the Wayne County and Detroit politicians they got very rich while they let the city fall apart.
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Jennie in TO
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I grew up in Windsor right across from Detroit. There is a good deal of Detroit that needs to be flat out bulldozed. Such a shame. It used to be an amazing city back in the 40's and 50's. :sad
Edited by Jennie in TO, May 26, 2012, 4:50 am.
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raml
May 25, 2012, 11:41 pm
Detroit and Cleveland are the democrats fault. They basically picked the cities clean running off any middle class from them and now there are mostly welfare recipients there because they can't get out. There are no jobs for them to get off welfare and get out of those cities. The democrats have been running these cities since the beginning of their downfall and can't lie and say it isn't their fault. When my parents were first married they lived in Detroit and were able to travel all over the city now none of my family still living in the suburbs there will even drive the freeway over the city for fear of being car jacked. My brother stopped driving around Detroit after he had been robbed at gunpoint twice when a person jumped in his car at a light he never remembered to lock all his doors he just quit going near the city limits of Detroit as most people now do. It is a shame the homes in west Detroit use to be beautiful but now are getting terribly run down. I use to get on a bus when I was a teen and go shop in Detroit at Hudsons it was so much fun and now no one can do that anymore. I really can't stand the Wayne County and Detroit politicians they got very rich while they let the city fall apart.
Whenever their is a list on the computer of the most struggling cities Detroit and Cleveland are always on the list. :sigh
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cricket55
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Sad to see the cities coming to this in our country., but there will probably be alot more of this.
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ole shosty

If you can handle excessive gore and tons of vulgarities, the movie ROBOCOP is an excellent, now prophetic, look at Detroit when the police no longer have control. That's what I think of every time I read these articles.

Edited by ole shosty, May 30, 2012, 8:18 am.
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