I’m so glad I’m living in The U.S.A. (2025 Update)

I had a neighbor, a retired highway department engineer, consult in Taipei for several years on building their subway system.

He and his wife lived in a high rise condo in the city and he loved it. Everything he needed in life was right there within walking distance of his condo.

Different strokes for different folks.

That could be a sweet deal for the right person. Most places just a building lot can be triple that or more. You can end up with a nice house for 50k or so.

One of the problems with Detroit is that you never know if you'll have all of your car when you wake up.

Here is a similar size place in Hong Kong:

It has been years since my neighbor worked in Taiwan. Don't know what housing cost then. He could not afford it now.

I also have an neighbor with a small cottage in India where he winters with his wife near their families. He bought it several years ago. He said he could not afford it today.

Wonder if prisoners live in shoe boxes.

Nope, they are free to move around the city, factory farm animals arent.

The apology wasn’t. The statement about the facts was.

After seeing some of the "homes", I wonder if you'd be better off in prison. At least a US prison

Indeed

Just watched this episode Who Do You Think You Are? : Craig Revel Horwood That had around 40K people quite literally living in tents at the height of the gold rush in Ballarat Australia. That particular person's great grand parents did that with 5 kids under 10.

You lot did something similar during your gold rushes.

Looks like you mangled that from Japan to China particularly with the stolen bicycle.

It looked very nice from the air. Lots of trees, streets in good condition. House on its right was boarded up at the front door, but that might get sold too. Lots of people can't afford 400,000, 100,000, or even 50,000 plus property taxes.

I have reasons I have to live in a city, but for other people it could be fine.

Detroit used to be a very nice city...then the angry welfare democrat criminals moved in and transformed it into a shithole.

You're not wrong. Coleman A. Young was very bad for the city of Detroit.

Still, there are signs of life in the old girl. If they only had the fortitude to move people off of blocks where there's only one house standing, it would help with their infrastructure budget.

Cindy Hamilton

Detroit IS a city. Sort of. If you live in Ballmore you'd be right at home.

ANd fully 1/5 of all residential buildings in Detroit are vacant and abandoned, with no taxes being collected from them. Of that 20%, it is estimated that over half are NOT restorable, even if you could find tenants - at any price.