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Any city with more than 500,000 people has gone down. I'll boldly include Canada in that, too.
What the hell happened to cities?
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If people like you are growing in Las Vegas, then remind me to stay the hell away from that city.
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We are growing and we are prospering.
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Fine faggot we don’t need you.
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Lmao, manlet
It takes a special type of person to suffer the indignities and inconviences of living in a city. Some people do it for work, but most do it to make consooming easier. More resurants, bars, stores, drugs, etc. What is one more inconvience to people already living such fucked lives just for consumption?
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I'm super old, old enough to have seen cities recover, decline, recover, and decline again.
It's not any one thing. Things have been MUCH WORSE in the USA, and they have been better.
At one point, we had tens of thousands of people camped out in Washington, D.C., for years, getting murdered by the National Guard and having their camps burned down. This was during the Great Depression.
Things aren't that bad yet. But they are headed in that direction.
It's not any one thing. Things have been MUCH WORSE in the USA, and they have been better.
At one point, we had tens of thousands of people camped out in Washington, D.C., for years, getting murdered by the National Guard and having their camps burned down. This was during the Great Depression.
Things aren't that bad yet. But they are headed in that direction.
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Fuckinuhh, Detroit? You couldn't ask for a more literal "name one fucking city being destroyed" outside of an active warzone.
When your house costs $1000, but your property taxes are in the tens of thousands annually, you don't get to grow. Most midwest metro areas are like this, most central and southern california metro areas are like this, most east cost metro areas are like this. Trying to fix the decay of cities already in decay doesn't work when the local government is financially hostile towards its people and disincentivizes the growth it wants by way of tax slavery. You could buy and restore a turn-of-the-century neo-gothic mansion on an acre or more of land in the dead center of one of the most industrially important cities ever created for less than a gaming computer, but the city will charge you the price of a two year old dealership car to keep it, EVERY YEAR. As long as that keeps happening, and as long as metro areas decide to be consumers instead of producers, cities will never be healthy again.
Interestingly, do you want to know what Detroit does have going for it, that many other cities don't? Detroit doesn't have anywhere near as many hooverville tent cities as the likes of Portland or Seattle. The people brave/stupid enough to live there are lifers, and will not leave purely based on stubbornness. The homeless won't thrive in an area where the people have 0 tolerance for them. Currently, there are about 1500 homeless in Detroit. Las Vegas? 14,000. San Francisco? 20,000. NYC? 70,000, or five times the population of my city, which is much bigger in area than NYC itself. 70,000 zombies, asses-to-elbows. For as shitty as Detroit is, at least its people are homeowners and rentoids who can usually afford it.
Las Vegas is a paper tiger, and one that could never hope to stand on its own if anything even slightly catastrophic were to happen. You literally built your home on a foundation of sand, in the middle of a desert. You have no resources, whatsoever. Detroit took a century to die, and it's still not quite there yet. It'll take LV a week.
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I'm rural and I'm with you. Cities are individual situations, same as everywhere else.
That said, I'm not big on huge urban living at all. Detroit would make me eat the barrel of a gun faster. Knoxville TN is about the perfect balance for me.
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Detroit used to be a poster American city with opportunity, growth and reputation. Then when America started imploding its own auto industry, it never recovered. I actually heard that Detroit is doing BETTER than before.
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It is, in the sense that it's getting used to downsizing itself. The property tax/millage rates still haven't changed, which drives the price of rent through the fucking roof, but in terms of how it's managing with its current population, it is doing rather well, compared to 15 years ago. Right now the other two biggest issues are the completely ghettoized black population, and the sheer amount of debris from entirely unoccupied neighborhoods from over a century ago. Both of these would be fixed if the city wasn't a tax vampire.
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By itself or in comparison to other American cities? Detroit actually put riots in check during 2020 compared to other cities.
I blame rapid urbanization and population control for why cities are declining in quality. NYC used to be safe in the 00s-10s until defund the police. Now, it's slowly turning back into Fear City.
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Compared to itself. Detroit's decline, its reasons for why, and its options as to where to go in the future, are unique, compared to most American Cities. I think it's good that Detroit's population has dropped through the floor, because while it has bankrupted the local government, leaving it unable to clean up, it presents the opportunity to balance out the job market, which was completely 200% FUCKED back in 2005-2012. In those days, you had people in lines wrapped around city blocks just for a single opening at a manufacturing plant or metal foundry. Those jobs didn't even pay super well. Now, virtually all of those 'hopefuls' have left, and the ratio of available jobs to warm bodies to fill them is much narrower. As long as Detroit has industrial infrastructure, it will continue, even if it looks like shit while doing it. That's what makes it stand out against places like San Francisco, which is really just a landmass devoted to corporate headquarters and historical tourism, or Las Vegas, which has all of its eggs in the entertainment basket, with no natural resources or any other reason to be there. Cars still need to be made, steel still needs to be produced, custom work orders still need to be fulfilled, etc. The Detroit-Toledo-Windsor triangle still makes the world go round.
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I definitely think it's gotten worse, especially in leftist shitholes, but if you look at old photos, in most big cities it was never really that good, they just cared about hiding it better. Before NYC did a big cleanup program, half of it looked like a warzone, and people just tossed trash, scrap, and whole cars into the river or in parking lots.
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The only growing in Las Vegas is the STD count and hopefully THIS TIME it stays in Vegas.
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The problem is American cities are just shitholes covered in the homeless and welfare queens. A part of that is because rental prices are insane and programs like Section 8 will pay single mothers with a gaggle of children to live in those units while working people can't afford it, and hotels in cities will also be paid by the government to house homeless people (it's very common in New York). Then there's the general homeless population that isn't policed at all pretty much, and most of the policing goes towards punishing the tax payer once again.
Basically the USA and many other Western nations punish people for actually contributing to society and reward the worthless. Japan on the other hand and many other Asian countries actually have rather nice cities, hell even the Middle East in many cases can have nice cities if you're male.
Basically the USA and many other Western nations punish people for actually contributing to society and reward the worthless. Japan on the other hand and many other Asian countries actually have rather nice cities, hell even the Middle East in many cases can have nice cities if you're male.
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What happened to cities is, to put it mildly, social collapse.
The evisceration of small business in favour of chain businesses, the internalisation of the economics of big cities, where foreign investors and agents artificially raise the prices of everything on detriment of locals, immigration on a higher rate than assimilation, where large chunks of FOBs will rather get strong in particular areas and more or less recreate their original countries with zero love, trust or collaboration with local society and government, and the shift of mentality where everybody is transient and what everybody aspires to is to get as much money as possible and fly the fuck out of there as soon as possible to have a family and live peacefully in a nicer suburb, which means all agents that could potentially turn the tide are removed. But, naturally, no one wants to raise their children in this environment.
In the end, the city ends up entirely populated by rich cunts, wagies, freeloaders, corporate drones and Lainey Molnar types who watched too much Sex and the City.
Silly rabbit, Republicans won't be allowed to win anymore
The evisceration of small business in favour of chain businesses, the internalisation of the economics of big cities, where foreign investors and agents artificially raise the prices of everything on detriment of locals, immigration on a higher rate than assimilation, where large chunks of FOBs will rather get strong in particular areas and more or less recreate their original countries with zero love, trust or collaboration with local society and government, and the shift of mentality where everybody is transient and what everybody aspires to is to get as much money as possible and fly the fuck out of there as soon as possible to have a family and live peacefully in a nicer suburb, which means all agents that could potentially turn the tide are removed. But, naturally, no one wants to raise their children in this environment.
In the end, the city ends up entirely populated by rich cunts, wagies, freeloaders, corporate drones and Lainey Molnar types who watched too much Sex and the City.
Silly rabbit, Republicans won't be allowed to win anymore
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In my experience cities have a sweet spot where they are actively taking care of shit to get people to live there and then too many or too many of the wrong people move in.
I've lived in the sweet spot twice and it was good, dare say great and then the masses move in within the decade and it's all fucking overcrowded, underfunded trash.
I've lived in the sweet spot twice and it was good, dare say great and then the masses move in within the decade and it's all fucking overcrowded, underfunded trash.