Warbler said:

Mrebo said:

As you may have heard, the city of Detroit is bankrupt. They're considering selling off their art collections. Unions are demanding they get their pensions. Here are impressive photos of abandoned buildings in Detroit.

that is sad, very sad. You can just tell some of those buildings used be beautiful. That city really needs a lot of help. Its a shame. I think the either state or the feds need to take over.

Oh man, I miss that city! Yeah, it has a lot of beautiful architecture. The apartment I used to live in was pretty run down, but it was still absolutely gorgeous, and was once a really high dollar place that housed some very wealthy people.

It is easy to look at those pictures and think that the whole city is in total ruins. It lost a crazy amount of its population, but the city still chugs away and there is still a lot of really cool stuff there.

The place drew in a massive population because of the auto industry, and now that the industry has taken a dive, and that the massive number of the jobs those workers were once needed for are now all mechanized and/or shipped over seas, sadly, there is absolutely no way it is going to recover.

What do you do when over half your population leaves, and you still have all these left over resources and accommodations you have to pay for, only without the revenue to support it all? There is really no way to fix it, but to go back in time.

I love that city.