Motown goes bust!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Doo, wee, doooh, dooh..

[Theo Markettos]

I had a look too - massive suburban sprawl which looks OK, with some dodgy-looking inner city and industrial areas. Pictures suggested they were from 2008, so much may have happened since. One thing it isn't really possible to gauge from Streetview is if somewhere is a no-go area because you risk being shot/mugged/whatever.

The other thing is there seems to be very limited public transport, so if you live in the suburban sprawl and can't afford to run a car, you're stuffed.

Try west/southwest Wales. Rural and miles from the nearest job.

City-wise, try northern like York, Edinburgh or Inverness. But everywhere has less-nice areas to a greater or lesser degree.

Theo

[jgh]

A huge amount of "Detroit", along with its tax base, is outside the city boundaries. It's about the size of Birmingham, but all the taxpayers live in Warwickshire.

JGH

[tim.....]

Um, the guy asked: "reasonable priced"

tim

[John Williamson]

Potteries or County Durham. Both cheap, both within reasonable commmuting distance of major centres of work.

[Nightjar]

A quarter of the population has left since then for one thing.

Colin Bignell

[tim.....]

you now seem to have forgotten "nice"

tim

[harryagain]

Quality!

Seriously though, there are loads more waiting in the wings to suffer the same humiliation - among them, New York, no less! And as usual, European banks are exposed to these worthless municipal bonds, so it looks like once again, we are all on the hook for this madness. How come it's always *us* that ends up forking out for someone else's greed and incompetence? :(

Our worthless politicians are in the pockets of the rich. All of them.

[Jaffna Dog]

We can expect more of this around the industrialised world, the situation o f nuclear families in suburban houses with the parents going out to work fo r employers is no longer economically sustainable, as we are seeing with large-scale youth unemployment in Europe, most people will not be working f or employers as there are too many people for the number of jobs that are r ealistically available, eventually only a privileged minority will have reg ular jobs, this situation has been coming for a long time, we held it off f or a bit in the UK with the Blair government and their public sector borrow ing, but now we're back to where we were in the Thatcher era.

The only solution is the South Asian way, with extended families living tog ether, working in small businesses with perhaps only one person in outside employment, that won't be viable with our present housing stock in zoned pl anning, built with the assumption that everybody goes out to work and just sleeps at home, better to flatten the estates and allow individual premise s on their own plots, suitable for working as well as living.

[Mark]

Nail ---> Head.

[dennis]

Lot of people's dreams and lives destroyed there.

there are more people in work now than when Blaire was president.

There are also more people looking for work which is why there are more unemployed.