A lot of people want to live in a hip, livable neighborhood.
Housing Bubble is bursting
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A lot of people want to live in a hip, livable neighborhood.
Lightbringer
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Exactly! Ding ding ding! The only problem is that that neighborhood is only 2 square blocks.
If it were only contained to 2 square blocks
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
It is. Those little Gen Z people aren't leaving those 2 square blocks because there be monsters.
It used to be one square mile, but now it is two square miles. Dearborn with its large immigrant community has a lot of nice areas. Ann Arbor would be the big nice place to live in the area. It is a very liberal college town.
Tom Cotton complained that Democrats "want to make you live in downtown areas, and high-rise buildings, and walk to work, or take the subway, or ride an electric scooter, or whatever it is that Pete Buttigieg takes to work”, but the reality is many people like being able to walk to a nice restaurant. They do not want to have to drive an hour or two just to get a nice meal. That is why rents in culturally reasonable center cities are so high, because people want to live there, and do not want to be stuck in their cars for hours every day.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Stop. It didn't used to be a mile, Dearborn doesn't fucking matter because it's not even close. Fuck Tom Cotton.
It is 2 square blocks...it matters not one bit but it's a good example as to why evince's fascination with media is misleading in fact...dare I say it's "disinformation?"
Dearborn literally borders on Detroit. You can literally have one foot in each city. It is impossible for two cities to be closer. While the two cities are politically divided, they are socially the same city.
It is also a good bit bigger than two blocks. I was there 20 years ago when it was only a square mile. It has doubled in size since then. That is still less than 1% of Detroit, and Detroit is still below its population high... Detroit is growing again. It is more than two third of the way back to its population high.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Dearborn literally borders on Detroit. You can literally have one foot in each city. It is impossible for two cities to be closer. While the two cities are politically divided, they are socially the same city.
It is also a good bit bigger than two blocks. I was there 20 years ago when it was only a square mile. It has doubled in size since then. That is still less than 1% of Detroit, and Detroit is still below its population high... Detroit is growing again. It is more than two third of the way back to its population high.
I know Dearborn borders Detroit, I live here dumbass. Your map is way too big for the area discussed. Tell me where mid-town is on that map Walt.
Dearborn is further from the affluent river areas, and closer to the desolate burned out neighborhoods, but still Dearborn does well. It is all because of the immigrants. You may not like Muslim immigrants, but they are great for Dearborn.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Where is mid-town Walt?
From 20 year old memories:
Strangely enough, not in the middle of Detroit. It is on the other side of Downtown from the river. The good neighborhoods are mostly downtown close to the river, but have been expanding out to midtown. As you go further to the west, you get into depopulated neighborhoods...
But everything has been getting better in the last 20 years. They have regained two thirds of their population over those years. I would not say that Detroit is back, but it certainly is coming back.
And it is not far away from Dearborn.
Want to talk about Alphabet City in NYC? It used to be scary bad, but now it is unaffordable good; all in a matter of 30 years. Or the South Bronx went from a burned out zone, to super expensive in 40 years.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Where is mid-town Walt?
I answered that question. I will put my original answer below. Downtown is up against the river, and midtown is on the other side of downtown from the river. Moving from southeast to northwest, there is the river, downtown, and then midtown.
20 years ago, I walked from the river to I-94, so basically through all downtown and all midtown, and it took me a little longer than half an hour. I cannot remember the exact time, but it was not a long walk.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
No, you didn't. Where is mid-town?
Circle it on your map...your huge map. Do you have any idea how many square miles that map is? You have Northville on it ffs.
I have explained where midtown is twice, and now I will do it for the third and final time. We will start on the map where Highland Park is. You see Highland Park on the map? Moving southeast from Highland Park, you first have North End, then Midtown, then Downtown, and finally the Detroit River. Oddly enough if you continue to go southeast across the river, then you are in Canada. Yes, Detroit is to the Northwest of Canada(or more accurately a part of Canada).
So Midtown is halfway between Highland Park and the Detroit River.
The worst blight is either to the west or east of Midtown and Downtown, with the absolute worst being along the western border, not far from Dearborn. The difference between Dearborn on Detroit can be amazing, considering they are just across the street from each other.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
No you didn't and no it's not.
Circle it on your map boy. I'm having fun here.
Your talk about your walk from the river was total bullshit. You know how I know? I live here.
Everyone has seen me explain where it is three times in a row.
I am pointing my finger directly at it. Can't you see? Oh no, you cannot. I am not going to load a circled image of it on my website, because I do not want to give you a link
I reassure you it is very possible, and not all that difficult. It is a lot less than an hour walk from the river, through Downtown, and Midtown, to I-94. It was a long time ago, so I do not remember any of the street names, but there are easy to walk streets all along the way.
I am beginning to doubt you actually live in Midtown if you claim it is impossible to walk from the Detroit River to Midtown.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Everyone here has seen you not answer the question. Where is mid-town Walt? It's only 2 fucking square blocks, give me the major intersection for fuck sake.
I recently read something in the Economist that blew my mind. If it did not come from such a credible source, I would not believe it. But now I cannot find it, so am beginning to wonder if I am wrong.
Anyway, the claim was that there are technically more people living in poverty in the suburbs of Detroit than in Detroit proper.
I found this similar article, but not The Economist article.
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/the-challenge-of-poverty-in-detroits-suburbs/Content?oid=2365904
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
That claim is most likely true because no one lives in Detroit anymore.