Q: What's the difference between Detroit and Chernobyl?
 

A: There weren't any Nuclear reactor meltdowns in Detroit.

http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...850979,00.html

Homes are more valuable in Chernobyl

i just bought a vacant lot in flint for 250 bucks. hahaha yay i own a chunk of the usa

radiation level

It's terrible. You can buy like five houses for $100k in Detroit right now.

Just curious. Has the thread starter or anybody that has posted in this thread ever visited Detroit? If so...what year was it. Did you visit it in it's prime?
I have a lot of great memories visiting Belle Isle, the various museums, the botanical gardens etc...
The city definitely has problems, but it still has a lot to offer.
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/

crazy pics

like a gunshot to the face it has a lot to offer

In your case, "Come back to Detroit, we missed you".

Would love to see quantum-x hit up Detroit and take some pics :thumbsup

Funny, that's exactly what my first thought was when going through those pics.

5? I can get you 20-30 of them for that. And not only in Detroit. Indiana, Ohio as well.

I don't see why they let these building stand. If buildings are abandoned and not maintained the city should take them, bulldoze it and sell the land.

Check Ebay, you can get houses for $2-5K each. I saw a decent size vacant lot, near an elementary school (populated area), in Flint go for $167.00. That's crazy.

No hot Russian chicks in Detroit?

Michigan and Rhode Island are like two demented half brothers. Both are blue states. Both have high taxes. Both are highly unionized. Both have lost a good chunk of their manufacturing base. Both are losing population.

Yet, despite their demise, the people living in both places keep electing the same awful public officials who keep driving them further into the ground.

If you want to see what an ObamaNATION will look like years in the future, it exists now in MI and RI.

Please. What are the red states plans for keeping jobs from going overseas? This is the main problem...

downtown
 

Don't start blaming African Americans now, it is true that 99% of downtown Detroit is inhabited by African Americans but that has absolutely nothing to do with that.

It's bc. of the tubes

That would be a big waste of money.

take a look at how beautiful most of those buildings were - what a shame.

you can buy houses in downtown Detroit for nothing - and just like those buildings - they are really nice homes and streets - well they were.

Why is Detroit looking like Chernobyl?
I am not from the US, I thought that all the big car manufacturers where there and it might be a prosperous city.

This thread makes me sad. :(

silent knight would take amazing black and white pics there.

dif. is most US cities will look like detroit in the next year or so.

The soil in Chernobyl is cleaner.

;) I've been meaning to go back to detroit for a while now, probably via toledo on the way.
Only real problem I'd have exploring there is getting fucking shot.

Surpised they didn't mention Michigan Central Station.

That said, that theatre looks amazing..

The difference is that Chernobyl used to be a nice place....... where as Detroit was always a hell hole.

PeteKT took some awesome photos downtown last year while exploring. We should dig up that thread, I believe he had grand central station and many others.

Brad

Well Detroit was once a prosperous industry rich hot bed of manufacturing where as Chernobyl has always been in the Ukraine famous only for producing cannon fodder.

Inside? Don't remember seeing that.
From memory, it's locked down reasonably well w/ just 1 known / stable entrance.

Props to pete if he got in!