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Originally Posted by southbymidwest
It is not just Detroit that has suffered. Ask people from Akron/Canton OH, Gary IN, Pittsburgh PA, Toledo OH, Baltimore MD- those areas were once filled with manufacturers- some for the auto industry, some not, a lot union, some not. The domestic steel industry has been decimated in no small part due to manufacturing overseas where they can pay workers a pittance, and have minimal health, safety and ecologic consequences, and then ship here. The textile industry (which is almost exclusively southern) has been clobbered since the mid 1990's-they have lost over one million jobs, mainly to other countries. This is larger than the idiot mayor of Detroit, the bad decisions made by the bosses at the Big Three, and adversarial union/management relationships. The ripple efect of it all has negatively impacted the communities that have grown up around these manufacturing areas. So Kevin, would you have these people move because they did not see the future because obviously they had their eggs in one basket also?
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Moving is an option. I'd suggest, if nothing else, that they break out of this 'woe is me' B.S. and do something to improve their own situation. Moving might be the best thing for some people as clearly there are more economic opportunities elsewhere, but that clearly isn't the best for everyone.
I imagine in the near future, in places like Detroit where the population is plummeted, the city or some governmental entity will start condemning entire blighted neighborhoods, giving owners the financial opportunity to relocate elsewhere in the city or to another metropolitan area. This is almost a certainty because current city services simply cannot service the population as spread out as it is and continued urban decay is a substantial certainty.
If there was one whit of leadership at the top, this'd already be going on.
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