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Jun 6, 2018 22:32:45 #
And The Worst City In America For 2018 Is…
It was once one of the greatest manufacturing cities in the entire world, and it once boasted the highest per capita income in the whole country. 50 years ago, thriving middle class neighborhoods peppered the city, but today it has become a rotting, decaying nightmare and a poster child for urban decay. Tens of thousands of structures stand empty, and that is after the city has already torn down thousands of abandoned buildings.
Michael Snyder
Before I reveal which city was chosen as the worst city in America this year, let me give you some hints. At one time nearly two million people lived there, but now the population has declined to about 700,000. It was once one of the greatest manufacturing cities in the entire world, and it once boasted the highest per capita income in the whole country. 50 years ago, thriving middle-class neighborhoods peppered the city, but today it has become a rotting, decaying nightmare and a poster child for urban decay. Tens of thousands of structures stand empty, and that is after the city has already torn down thousands of abandoned buildings.
You have probably already guessed by now that the city I am talking about is Detroit.
So precisely how was Detroit selected as “the worst city in America” this year?
Well, 24/7 Wall St. has developed an “index” that factors in eight different categories…
24/7 Wall St. created an index with measures in eight categories — crime, economy, education, environment, health, housing, infrastructure, and leisure — to identify the 50 worst cities to live in. Not confined to a single region, the worst cities span the country from the South to the Midwest and from New England to the Pacific coast.
After considering all of those factors, 24/7 Wall St. determined that Detroit really is “the country’s worst city to live in”…
Detroit, Michigan holds the dubious title of being the country’s worst city to live in, according to a new report ranking America’s 50 most unappealing places to call home.
Detroit has just the right combination of poverty, unemployment, crime and other factors to hold its first-place position, followed by Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri.
The ironic thing is that Detroit has actually been bouncing back a little bit in recent years. The city has become a magnet for Millennials that are attracted by the burgeoning tech startups and the emerging hipster culture.
But even though things may not be quite as bad as they were a few years ago, 24/7 Wall St. still says that no other major city in America is worse…
The poster child of American post-industrial urban decline, Detroit, Michigan, ranks as the worst city in the country to live in. Once home to 1.8 million residents at the peak of U.S. auto manufacturing in the 1950s, the city is now home to fewer than 700,000 after decades of decline.
A poor, economically depressed city, more than one in every three Detroit residents live below the poverty line. The city also has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United States, with 10.9% of the workforce out of a job. Detroit is also dangerous. Along with Las Vegas, it is one of only two cities nationwide where there were over 2,000 violent crimes for every 100,000 residents in 2016.
Of course there are a lot of people that live and work in Detroit that would disagree.
A local newspaper interviewed some of them about this new ranking, and I found a quote from a woman named Margareth Corkery to be particularly revealing…
“Detroit is beautiful place to live. I mean we have our problems, granted, but there’s beautiful architecture, like you know, old English Village, Palmer Woods, the River Front. All these new restaurants here, we’re coming back. Yeah we have problems, I’ll give it to you, but I love Detroit. I don’t live in Detroit anymore, I used to, but it still is my heart.“
So let’s get this straight – she is trying to tell us how wonderful Detroit is, but she doesn’t live there anymore?
In life, what people do is far more important than what they say, and it would be very interesting to know why she made a decision to get out of there.
Of course we shouldn’t just pick on Detroit. There are many other formerly great U.S. cities that have seen much better days. Just check out the other major cities that fall in the top 10…
1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Flint, Michigan
3. St. Louis, Missouri
4. Las Vegas
5. Memphis, Tennessee
6. Cleveland, Ohio
7. Wilmington, Delaware
8. Albany, Georgia
9. Springfield, Missouri
10. Baltimore, Maryland
I was more than a little bit surprised to see Las Vegas make the list. The Las Vegas economy has been doing quite well over the past few years, but it made the list because of an extremely high crime rate.
Springfield, Missouri should definitely not be on this list. I have been to Springfield a number of times, and it is not a bad area. But 24/7 Wall St. included it on the list because of an elevated crime rate and because about one out of every four residents is living in poverty.
And I have to say that I was quite astounded that Baltimore only made it to number 10 on the list. I have been to Baltimore many, many times, and it should definitely be closer to the top. It is a rotting, decaying war zone, and there are certain parts of Baltimore that are as bad (or worse) than anything that Detroit has to offer.
Other cities that I would have put much closer to the top of the list include Chicago, Oakland and Stockton. And of course a whole host of rotting cities in the “rust belt” have been experiencing what Detroit is going through on a smaller scale.
We live at a time when virtually our entire nation is in decline. We are decaying economically, morally, mentally, emotionally and physically. At one time our society was the envy of the rest of the world, but now the rest of the world just talks about how great we used to be.
The only way that we have been able to maintain our “greatness” in recent years is by going into unprecedented amounts of debt. Our current debt-fueled standard of living is not even close to sustainable, and once this current bubble implodes we are going to see America’s decline go to an entirely new level.
It was once one of the greatest manufacturing cities in the entire world, and it once boasted the highest per capita income in the whole country. 50 years ago, thriving middle class neighborhoods peppered the city, but today it has become a rotting, decaying nightmare and a poster child for urban decay. Tens of thousands of structures stand empty, and that is after the city has already torn down thousands of abandoned buildings.
Michael Snyder
Before I reveal which city was chosen as the worst city in America this year, let me give you some hints. At one time nearly two million people lived there, but now the population has declined to about 700,000. It was once one of the greatest manufacturing cities in the entire world, and it once boasted the highest per capita income in the whole country. 50 years ago, thriving middle-class neighborhoods peppered the city, but today it has become a rotting, decaying nightmare and a poster child for urban decay. Tens of thousands of structures stand empty, and that is after the city has already torn down thousands of abandoned buildings.
You have probably already guessed by now that the city I am talking about is Detroit.
So precisely how was Detroit selected as “the worst city in America” this year?
Well, 24/7 Wall St. has developed an “index” that factors in eight different categories…
24/7 Wall St. created an index with measures in eight categories — crime, economy, education, environment, health, housing, infrastructure, and leisure — to identify the 50 worst cities to live in. Not confined to a single region, the worst cities span the country from the South to the Midwest and from New England to the Pacific coast.
After considering all of those factors, 24/7 Wall St. determined that Detroit really is “the country’s worst city to live in”…
Detroit, Michigan holds the dubious title of being the country’s worst city to live in, according to a new report ranking America’s 50 most unappealing places to call home.
Detroit has just the right combination of poverty, unemployment, crime and other factors to hold its first-place position, followed by Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri.
The ironic thing is that Detroit has actually been bouncing back a little bit in recent years. The city has become a magnet for Millennials that are attracted by the burgeoning tech startups and the emerging hipster culture.
But even though things may not be quite as bad as they were a few years ago, 24/7 Wall St. still says that no other major city in America is worse…
The poster child of American post-industrial urban decline, Detroit, Michigan, ranks as the worst city in the country to live in. Once home to 1.8 million residents at the peak of U.S. auto manufacturing in the 1950s, the city is now home to fewer than 700,000 after decades of decline.
A poor, economically depressed city, more than one in every three Detroit residents live below the poverty line. The city also has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United States, with 10.9% of the workforce out of a job. Detroit is also dangerous. Along with Las Vegas, it is one of only two cities nationwide where there were over 2,000 violent crimes for every 100,000 residents in 2016.
Of course there are a lot of people that live and work in Detroit that would disagree.
A local newspaper interviewed some of them about this new ranking, and I found a quote from a woman named Margareth Corkery to be particularly revealing…
“Detroit is beautiful place to live. I mean we have our problems, granted, but there’s beautiful architecture, like you know, old English Village, Palmer Woods, the River Front. All these new restaurants here, we’re coming back. Yeah we have problems, I’ll give it to you, but I love Detroit. I don’t live in Detroit anymore, I used to, but it still is my heart.“
So let’s get this straight – she is trying to tell us how wonderful Detroit is, but she doesn’t live there anymore?
In life, what people do is far more important than what they say, and it would be very interesting to know why she made a decision to get out of there.
Of course we shouldn’t just pick on Detroit. There are many other formerly great U.S. cities that have seen much better days. Just check out the other major cities that fall in the top 10…
1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Flint, Michigan
3. St. Louis, Missouri
4. Las Vegas
5. Memphis, Tennessee
6. Cleveland, Ohio
7. Wilmington, Delaware
8. Albany, Georgia
9. Springfield, Missouri
10. Baltimore, Maryland
I was more than a little bit surprised to see Las Vegas make the list. The Las Vegas economy has been doing quite well over the past few years, but it made the list because of an extremely high crime rate.
Springfield, Missouri should definitely not be on this list. I have been to Springfield a number of times, and it is not a bad area. But 24/7 Wall St. included it on the list because of an elevated crime rate and because about one out of every four residents is living in poverty.
And I have to say that I was quite astounded that Baltimore only made it to number 10 on the list. I have been to Baltimore many, many times, and it should definitely be closer to the top. It is a rotting, decaying war zone, and there are certain parts of Baltimore that are as bad (or worse) than anything that Detroit has to offer.
Other cities that I would have put much closer to the top of the list include Chicago, Oakland and Stockton. And of course a whole host of rotting cities in the “rust belt” have been experiencing what Detroit is going through on a smaller scale.
We live at a time when virtually our entire nation is in decline. We are decaying economically, morally, mentally, emotionally and physically. At one time our society was the envy of the rest of the world, but now the rest of the world just talks about how great we used to be.
The only way that we have been able to maintain our “greatness” in recent years is by going into unprecedented amounts of debt. Our current debt-fueled standard of living is not even close to sustainable, and once this current bubble implodes we are going to see America’s decline go to an entirely new level.
Jun 6, 2018 23:56:22 #
Jun 7, 2018 05:52:21 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
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I lived in Las Vegas in the 80's. At the time it was a nice place to visit, but.....
Jun 7, 2018 05:57:18 #
Super Dave wrote:
I lived in Las Vegas in the 80's. At the time it was a nice place to visit, but.....
I hear, and it's been years since I was there, once you get off the strip, it's a shithole.
Jun 7, 2018 06:01:01 #
Dr. Evil wrote:
I hear, and it's been years since I was there, once you get off the strip, it's a shithole.
There are some nice communities in the burbs.
It's like Disneyland. After you've seen it 100 times you're sick of it.
Jun 7, 2018 06:26:49 #
Super Dave wrote:
There are some nice communities in the burbs.
It's like Disneyland. After you've seen it 100 times you're sick of it.
It's like Disneyland. After you've seen it 100 times you're sick of it.
Never was much of a gambler, if everyone was like me, they couldn't pay to keep the neon burning.
Jun 7, 2018 06:38:35 #
Dr. Evil wrote:
Never was much of a gambler, if everyone was like me, they couldn't pay to keep the neon burning.
I actually made money at blackjack, in part because I followed the first rule of successful gambling: "Only a professional gambler should bet more than they don't mind losing."
It's the same reason surgeons don't operate on their children. Because they are less professional when there is a personal loss on the line.
Jun 7, 2018 09:59:30 #
I have the answer; the niggers moved in. Ever see a brand new HUD apartment building father the niggers took it over?? In just three years it is uninhabitable. They destroy every thing they touch, sooner or later, usually sooner.
Jun 7, 2018 10:01:59 #
johnsorrell7 wrote:
I have the answer; the niggers moved in. Ever see a brand new HUD apartment building father the niggers took it over?? In just three years it is uninhabitable. They destroy every thing they touch, sooner or later, usually sooner.
Are you trying to look stupid on purpose?
Jun 7, 2018 11:08:06 #
Jun 7, 2018 12:59:17 #
And those apartment buildings,the weave wearing,hood rat thugs move into,In 3 years theyre not even repairable,the city governments , just knock them down.
Jun 7, 2018 13:00:19 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
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You forgot New Orleans, I can't even understand how it did not make the list as it is a shithole city, and I used to live there, I know from personnal experience !!!!!!
Jun 7, 2018 13:42:30 #
Mike Easterday wrote:
Yeah.. Lots of them.. In Arizona, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida... I'm sure there are 100s or maybe 1000s in every state.Has anyone ever seen a White suburban ghetto?! Just wondering.
Jun 8, 2018 00:27:42 #
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