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I grew up around Detroit, so I keep tabs on things back home. Recently I came across a Time article that begins like so..
Sounds exactly like Detroit, right? I know I was thinking what you are, until I looked at the date
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873465,00.html
I have ties to Detroit but I was forced to leave due to the economic situation. I think it's truly sad how far Detroit has declined in the last few years, will likely continue to decline. It seems like history has a way of repeating itself. I have to vwonder if there is salvation for this region in my lifetime.
If ever a city stood as a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, it was Detroit. It was not pretty. It was, in fact, a combination of the grey and the garish: its downtown area was a warren of dingy, twisting streets; the used-car lots along Livernois Avenue raised an aurora of neon. But Detroit cared less about how it looked than about what it did—and it did plenty. In two world wars, it served as an arsenal of democracy. In the auto boom after World War II. Detroit put the U.S. on wheels as it had never been before. Prosperity seemed bound to go on forever—but it didn't, and Detroit is now in trouble.
Sounds exactly like Detroit, right? I know I was thinking what you are, until I looked at the date
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873465,00.html
I have ties to Detroit but I was forced to leave due to the economic situation. I think it's truly sad how far Detroit has declined in the last few years, will likely continue to decline. It seems like history has a way of repeating itself. I have to vwonder if there is salvation for this region in my lifetime.