Poor Detroit

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:11 pm

Look at what you can buy for $10,000 (wish I could post the pic direct):

http://www.trulia.com/property/photos/1 ... t-MI-48215

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:13 pm

Or even for $1:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1105609311

slow_dazzle · Post by **slow_dazzle** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:21 pm

This article was posted by Anarchyale on LATOC earlier today.

PONTIAC -- Employees packed a Pontiac Public Schools board meeting Monday and waited long enough to hear what they had feared -- that every district employee will be laid off, all 622 -- and then spoke with their feet.

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:22 pm

For $280 (wond why that particular amounnt, not $300?)

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1105097644

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:26 pm

Doesn't surprise me, slow-dazzle. My heart aches for the whole state. The 1980 recession hit them really hard. My sister-in-law's kids had school on split-day schedules for years--half the kids went to school in the mornings, half in the afternoons. I don't think they ever fully recovered from that.

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:34 pm

Look at this income property that brings in $550 a month selling for $300. Of course, you have to take into account Detroit's outrageous property taxes.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1104564544

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:40 pm

Here's a sweet-looking brick one fore $13,000:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1106972247

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:01 pm

$1,250

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1105198327

marmot · Post by **marmot** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:12 pm

Fearless · Post by **Fearless** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:53 pm

I spent many Saturday nights in Detroit in the 70's...the live music was incredible. It was a short 45 min. drive up I-75 for me and my girlfriends. These pictures below break my heart.

Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0 ... %2C00.html

2012 Countdown · Post by **2012 Countdown** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:33 pm

Detroit urban explorers....

http://video.google.com/videosearch?cli ... =en&tab=wv#

Urban Explorers-

Here's a good general clip of downtown...
Abandoned Detroit Skyscrapers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGxIR8 ... re=related

It is an open secret that the downtown of Detroit, Michigan is as empty as the residential districts that surround it.

Here's one of the surrounding suburbs...
Detroit: Living in Fear. Third World America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHr2mLQZ ... re=related

Amazing shit.

Alfred Joe's Boy · Post by **Alfred Joe's Boy** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:13 pm

A suburban Detroit blogger, "Citizen Carrie," who has some informative rants about the economy is located at "Carrie's Nation" http://carriesnation.blogspot.com/

Wombaticus Rex · Post by **Wombaticus Rex** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:31 pm

detroit is big

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:45 pm

Wombat said:

detroit is big

I'll say it is. It's huge, and it seems like you just drive and drive and drive to get anywhere. Considering how big it is, I was kind of surprised to see how those developers back in Detroit's heyday managed to pack so many houses in such tight spaces. Heh, maybe the means of transportation back then--twenties and thirties-- to get to work at Ford was trolley or something, so it was important to keep people packed in as close to work as possible.

chiggerbit · Post by **chiggerbit** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:04 pm

Yikes, $5800! Does being near the river make it a bad neighborhood?

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1107325377

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