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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
Detroit and Atlanta, those do cause my eyebrows to raise, because for Detroit, when did they ever get out of their doldrums... And Atlanta, it's problems were predictable. It was not a matter of if, but when, unfortunately... They growth superseded their capacity to maintain a city...
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While the city of Detroit proper has been losing population consistently for quite some time, that has not been true of the metropolitan area. The metropolitan area was continuing to grow until the housing bust, about 2 years ago. This article specifically referred to the "metropolitan area". True, people were leaving the city itself, but they were populating the suburbs. The number of abandoned homes in the suburbs is shocking.
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