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48208: A Depressing Tour Of America's Cheapest Zip Code

by b_b · #detroit
posted 502 days ago · shared by: 3
This is my 'hood. Actually, I'm in the neighboring 48201 just to the east. No place like home!


by mk 502 days ago  ·  link
I drive past that high school every morning in and out of work. It's weird to see kids with their tote bags, walking to school, or laughing and chasing each other about, and surrounded by such decay. It makes my parent's concerns about us walking to school as kids seem pretty laughable.

Detroit is soon going to be put under the State control of an emergency financial manager. It's probably unconstitutional, but the city is so corrupt and dysfunctional, that it can hardly do any harm. People that work in Detroit, but don't live there (like myself) must pay city taxes. Yet, we cannot vote in Detroit elections. That's probably unconstitutional too.

I have a dream of opening a simple manufacturing company in Detroit. Probably textiles. It's a great transportation hub, on a major waterway, and on the border with Canada. People will work hard for reasonable wages.

by thenewgreen 500 days ago  ·  link
Pretty crazy when juxtaposed with this link (found at the bottom of the "cheapest" article: http://www.businessinsider.com/alpine-new-jersey-richest-zip...

I spent some time at my sisters over the holiday, she lives in Indian Village which is a neighborhood of beautiful, ornate old homes from the days when Detroit was the wealthiest city on earth. The neighborhood has been well cared for and renovated but is surrounded by... well, Detroit. It's like a safe, beautiful little island in the middle of a war zone. It's very odd.



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