Incredible Hulks

[oilboy123]

Incredible Hulks
Exploring Detroit's beautiful ruins.

You have to get past the first 3-4 pictures.


http://www.slate.com/id/2213696/?GT1=38001

 

[gtx510]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Place more pics of the old GM building

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Building

 

[Mr Nice]

I visited this website years ago and I am amazed that so many empty buildings still stand, I guess the city/county doesn't have the money to tear them all down. I'm sure those area were once thriving areas back in the day. Check out the auto plants.

http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm

 

[Steve S]

We are getting to be more and more like a third world country each day.

 

[Tempest]

Yes, billions in debt, sky high taxes and social programs out the wazzo... You have to love the results.

 

[Tempest]

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090402/...+staggers+state
Quote:
Those leaving Michigan are the people the state most needs to keep -- young and college-educated. The state suffered a net loss to migration of 18,000 adults with a bachelor's degree or higher in 2007 alone -- the equivalent of half the staff of the University of Michigan crossing the state line.

Quote:
Michiganians who fled the state in 2007 took with them almost $1.2 billion more in paychecks than the paychecks of those moving in. That represents a 45 percent increase in lost wages in just one year, money no longer spent in Michigan businesses, paying mortgages or paying taxes.

Those leaving Michigan had incomes 20 percent higher than those who moved here ($49,700 to $40,000), a disturbing reversal of a long-standing trend.

And those figures don't take into account the "ripple effect" those paychecks would have had here -- an estimated $3.7 billion.

• The net loss of school-age children was more than 12,000 in 2007 alone, costing individual school districts roughly $84 million in state aid.

 

[uc50ic4more]

I produced a video about 8 years ago for Wayne County (the county Detroit is in) that was basically going to be an infomercial soliciting suburbanites to donate money to fund the destruction of urban decay. It focused mostly on residential neighborhoods that the county had to assume (from the city), and had not the budget to demolish.

The flight of the affluent to the 'burbs after WWII and especially in the 60's and 70's caused an erosion of the tax base, and I just cannot imagine trying to administer a place like that.

My dad tells me that most of the ruins that populate Detroit to this day are actually remnants of the '67 riots which burned approximately 1/4 of the city. 40 some-odd years later and they still cannot afford to tear them down properly.

 

[kelpie]

It's just a shame. We have seen better days.