Explore & Discuss The Ruins Of Detroit

I watched a good video about Detroit today and wanted to post it up here for all to see. The creator of the video put some commentary over the video, giving lots of good facts and statistics about the city. Facts and statements about Detroit,taken from the author's youtube video description: 1. Detroit is the 3rd most dangerous city to live in in the united states and flint a near by city is the 4th most dangerous criminal city in the usa. 2. 7 out of 10 murders go unsolved in t...
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LaWanda Flake, a 36-year-old, disabled mother of six traded in her four-bedroom, three-bath house, located in one of the city's better neighborhoods and valued at $96,000 for a 2006 Chevrolet Uplander with 85,000 miles, valued at between $5000 and $8,500. "I had a lot of good offers, some from out of state. It turned out I took one of the first offers I got because I felt like it helped us both," Flake told the Detroit News. "They needed the house more than anyone I spoke with. They kept t...
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The city of Detroit has found itself in a $200M+ hole. The city has reported that it will literally "run out of money" in 2012. Watch the video to see mayor Bing's plan to save the city, which essentially is to cut wages and raise taxes. Not really giving the people more reason to stay, huh?
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I turned on the news this morning to see the old Packard Plant is on fire again. Who set the fire is not clear, but they do think it was intentional. Often times these fires are started by some careless hobos, who frequently burn things inside these types of buildings to stay warm, or some punk kids playing with matches. Either way, fire is nothing new to the Packard Plant, or the residents of Detroit for that matter. Fire Breaks Out at Detroit's Packard Plant: MyFoxDETROIT.com The Asro...
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Sorry Detroit, but here's yet another dismal statistic... Most dangerous city based on 2010 statistics from the FBI. 1,111 violent crimes per 100,000 residents! Great, just what we need... something for all the gangbangers to be proud of. Pretty soon, they'll have driven out the rest of the residents of Detroit, and have completed Detroit's transformation into the world's largest urban prairie. Read the full article on the Huffington here: Detroit - 2010 Most Dangerous City
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