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 coffinnail
   
Location: room 101
Gender: Male
bury the dead
 |  |  | yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
< on 8/17/2005 6:12 AM >
|  | | | i found a link on dailyrotten to a yahoo article claiming detroit has over TWELVE THOUSAND abandoned buildings. people are leaving faster than the city can demolish the stuff. yay for michigan! i used to live in lansing and am kinda wishing i was still only a fairly short drive away....
http://news.yahoo....troit_050814210312
i love how the professor blames "racism" for detroit's continuing blight. too funny. i assume the guy has actually been there...
reality is the fine line between paranoia and denial |
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Axle
   
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 1 on 8/17/2005 11:57 AM >
| | | | interesting, very interesting.
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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rev_skarekroe
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 2 on 8/17/2005 2:38 PM >
| | | | I've never been there, but from what I've heard Detroit's on it's way to becoming the world's biggest ghost town.
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stretchjob
Location: Mid NC
Gender: Male
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 3 on 8/17/2005 3:12 PM >
| | | | I want to go to MCS and the Book Cadillac, if it's not being restored that is.
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nightbird
Girl Moderator
Location: Buffalo, NY
Gender: Female
Gone abortin, BRB
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 4 on 8/17/2005 4:49 PM >
| | | | As of the 2000 census, Detroit has around 950,000 people, far from being a ghost town. What makes it feel like it is, people don't go downtown, they go to the lake or the suburbs or wherever. If you ever get the chance to explore Detroit, do it. You will not be disappointed.
WTF indeed. |
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lopix
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
I survive on the poison you're feeding me
| | | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 5 on 8/17/2005 8:44 PM >
| | | | Only 950,000 people? Funny, I thought is was much bigger than that...
And 12,000 abandoned buildings? Sweet jeebus, is that not the muther of all jackpots?
I'm not angry - just focused :: No human opinion is higher than the truth
http://www.lopix.com :: http://www.dkphotogroup.com |
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Tomalom
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 6 on 8/17/2005 9:10 PM >
| | | | detroit is a mere 6 hours from my house.
can anybody say ROADTRIP!? lol
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HairyTheTaco
Location: The Hammer, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 7 on 8/18/2005 12:44 AM >
| | | | The one bonus of a dying city is that you will never have problems finding a parking space downtown.
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 8 on 8/18/2005 1:03 AM >
| | | | Posted by nightbird
As of the 2000 census, Detroit has around 950,000 people, far from being a ghost town. What makes it feel like it is, people don't go downtown, they go to the lake or the suburbs or wherever. If you ever get the chance to explore Detroit, do it. You will not be disappointed.
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And Detroit has lost an amazing amount of people --
http://www.freep.c...sus24_20040624.htm
"1900: 285,704
1920: 993,078
1940: 1,623,452
1960: 1,670,144
1980: 1,203,339
2000: 951,270"
While far from a ghost town, it has suffered tremendously in terms of population.
One of Cincinnati, OH's newspapers do an "abandonment" column where they profile an abandoned building a week. Most of the time it is houses but you find the occasional suprise. I wonder if any in Detroit do something similar?
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 9 on 8/18/2005 1:22 AM >
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yeah and I know where they all went; Dallas!
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Decoy
Location: Leslieville
Gender: Male
Oh I have slipped the bonds of earth...
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 10 on 8/18/2005 3:45 AM >
| | | | I was sitting on the ambassador bridge on my way to dinner on the US side, and I'm looking over the streets of detroit, and was amazed at the amount of paper there was blowing around the streets.
Not just litter mind you, it was like a newspaper van exploded downtown.
Whats more, there wasn't a soul in sight. Empty streets and blowing papers is what I see when I think of Detroit.
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pitty
To be lookin' at the board, not lookin' at the city. |
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Kokopelli
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Gender: Male
Crack Smokin' Parrot
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 11 on 8/18/2005 3:57 AM >
| | | | If I ever get the time, I would like to meet up with some Detroit explorers to see some of the city's gems. But everything I have heard indicates Detroit is becoming a large ghost town. Some of the major complaints I have read and heard about the city are the corrupt police force and inept mayor. But that is a different thread.
"...Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live..." --Marcus Aurelius |
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coffinnail
Location: room 101
Gender: Male
bury the dead
| | | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 12 on 8/18/2005 4:20 AM >
| | | | Posted by Kokopelli
Some of the major complaints I have read and heard about the city are the corrupt police force and inept mayor
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whaaaa, you dissin' mayor kwame? dat's racist, yo.
reality is the fine line between paranoia and denial |
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Kokopelli
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Gender: Male
Crack Smokin' Parrot
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 13 on 8/18/2005 4:23 AM >
| | | | I aint dissin no mayor, I am jus repeatin what I's heard and read in them Dee-triot, yankee papers. But Flori-duh has it's share of the dumbasses. Usually around the Tampa and Miami areas... few in particular are Jack Thompson and Mark Ober. 
"...Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live..." --Marcus Aurelius |
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GMGuy
Gender: Male
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 14 on 8/19/2005 1:18 AM >
| | | | The Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com) has some great articles on the changing face of detroit. You do need to dig around for them, bit harder to find since they changed the web format to be more blingy.
Heres an excellent starting point if your into the personal aspect of the changing face of a city;
http://www.detnews...elmhurst/index.htm
Alex.
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Avatar-X
 
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 15 on 8/22/2005 6:00 PM >
| | | | This reminds me of Sim City, where you'd screw something up and suddenly all your big buildings would turn into abandoned ones. It was awesome. 
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huskies - such fluff. |
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Axle
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 16 on 8/22/2005 7:16 PM >
| | | | I wouldn't go exploring any of these buildings without a large group and some form of weapons.
And yes, I know all about the SimCity abandoned buildings. It's fun!
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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Rust
I am a rustbucket
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 17 on 8/22/2005 11:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by Axle
I wouldn't go exploring any of these buildings without a large group and some form of weapons.
And yes, I know all about the SimCity abandoned buildings. It's fun!
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Straight up.
I'd suggest if you're gonna explore anything in Detroit you don't go without a backpack and in it's a black gat and a phat sack, you wack-rappin bullshit bitches.
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Curious_George
Location: Cambridge
Gender: Male
Straight outta New Bedlam
| | Re: yahoo recognizes Detroit's abandonment supremacy
<Reply # 18 on 9/5/2005 3:51 PM >
| | | | When people talk of a ruin they are usually talking about a single building or series of buildings. Let me tell you that Detroit itself is one giant ruin. Every block has at least one abandoned building or vacant lot on it. To try and get a grasp of a situation, I passed over an abandoned ten story apartment block because there were bigger fish to fry.
Detroit is not only at the end of the line, its off the tracks.
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