Bloomfield Hills, MI

Is where all the auto executives and ballers live

I dont know much about Detroit but those house prices are crazy..is it really that bad there

I just found this when I googled for houses in detroit

In Detroit, houses cheaper than cars

http://realestate.msn.com/buying/art...mentid=4349836

So I'm getting the picture that Detroit is just like Baltimore is on The Wire..

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

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Detroit?

Isn't that the place where they have race riots when the home team wins a championship game?

I flew a model in from there about five years ago. It was the longest day of my life. Rather get four root canals than go through another experience like that.

Never been to Baghdad, but I can't imagine it could be all that much worse.

EVERYONE REALLY SHOULD READ THIS LINK, THE STATS/FIGURES/SALES ARE INCREDIBLE.

Yea it's fucking crazy. I can't see it staying that way forever, even if you had to hold them for 5 to 7 years. Seems like there is a lot of money to be made as cheap as those houses are.

The city wont stay dead forever, the jobs will eventually come back.

LOL! You caught that too? :thumbsup

Detroit and St. Louis (north St. Louis) are thoroughly depressing. You go to certain areas in those cities and you are amazed that you are in America. I stayed at the supposed "nice" hotel in Detroit (Rennaisance Hotel) and the elevator smelled like piss. A friend of mine lives in North St. Louis, and when I visited the taxis wouldn't take me to his crib.

At least Compton has palm trees...

Ahem... It's "Just Lyke Compton" thank you very much. And they'll look you right in the face when they shoot you, a luxury one does not get in Baghdad.

Whether that's better or not is personal preference.

What are house prices in Baghdad like? ... Anyone know?

damn, that is insane.

almost worth buying 10 or 15 houses for dirt cheap and just hoping things turn around there in the next 9 or 10 years.

never seen homes that cheap before

Those prices are insane

Bump because I still can't believe those two links.

No, I'm sorry, that is not a serious question at all. Everyone would rather live in Detroit. Your life expectancy would drop by like 30 years if you moved to Baghdad, and probably drop to 'dead by the end of the year' if you're white.

Well, as long as you don't mind trying to collect late rent payments from armed tenants.

Interesting. Here's another link:

The Detroit Metro population fell from 1.8 million in 1950 to 950,000 in 2000.

http://www.buildingsrus.co.uk/detroi...on_change.html

those houses are most likely errors or rental properties. the shitty houses in the shitty detroit neighborhoods go for 3-5k.

right now you can get homes in the suburbs for 20-50k on the low side and still make 300-400 profit per month after your mortgage, taxes, insurance. i dont touch detroit anymore even in the nice neighborhoods for rentals because their taxes are insanely high.

Here's a better question...

Would you rather live in Baghdad full of Americans or Detroit full of Muslims?

Damn I wish I had thought of that. You win. :thumbsup

nope, I didn't. :) Nice promo BTW :Oh crap LOL

Detroit or Baghdad...I take offense to this statement..I would like to see how another city would turn out after losing about 50% of automotive jobs...It's GM, FOrd and Chrysler's fault the city looks as it does...THere are sooooo many abandoned factories in my city that its ridiculous!!! And they wont even tear them down. All Detroit had was the automobile industry and thats almost dried up and the city is paying for it by drying up as well. Detroit was a thriving city until the riots in the 60's and all the business started to move out.

Was the economy to dependent on artificially high automotive union wage jobs?

Fr anyone that hasn't seen this, check out the links, interesting as shit.