I can't say I'm really surprised, but it's a weird thing to think about.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100308/ap_ ... ng_detroit

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Kind of sensible, in a very eerie way.

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Wheelhouse

they are doing this in flint, as well.

do it. return that land to farmland. reduce the price to crazy low, entice people to move there. the one thing they could have kept is some of tiger stadium up.

detroit isnt going to be the largest city in michigan much longer. i feel grand rapids will be, within 20 years. in all the doom and gloom in michigan, grand rapids is a huge bright spot for the state. i should move back there.

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Syracuse should do this, they've had to close down parts of the thru way due to dilapidated buildings.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

I heard this story on NPR, it actually makes a lot of sense. As people have deserted certain run down areas, it's become too costly to extend governmental services to relatively sparsely populated sectors. Also it just makes detroit look like a freaking ghosttown, too. They want to consolidate all the hold outs (the people who havent moved, even though they're surrounded by run down shit holes) in new areas, and turn the old forgotten sections into parks and stuff.
The main question is how are they going to compensate the people they move? The current law is supposed to be 125% of current value of land, but that isnt really fair since home prices have plumetted with everyone leaving. I figure we'll hear some more news in the coming months/years about people fighting to stay where they are.

Fixed

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Fixed again

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Hold my beer and watch this...

and again

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Fixed FTW?

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lol - I don't think the USA is that bad off; just some "used-to-be-major-cities"

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Now fixed FTW.

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mechaphil

STOP RAPING MY POST! haha

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Fixed

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Hold my beer and watch this...

this is a radical idea, that i kind of like.... now, if we could only level the east side of buffalo....

BUT i don't know if this fixes the root of the problem.... yes, it helps to shrink the tax base and eases the burden on the city to provide fire, police, etc... but what do you do to re-stimulate the economy there? Is agriculture the way to go? could you get people to "work" the fields? Or would they see it as work beneath them?

I do like the idea of hitting the reset button on some areas...

we certainly need to do something as a country in some of these areas because the status Que. isn't working...

Going back to a farming base could provide food for the homeless as well as some for sale...

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Rick Jeanerette after Marty Biron's diving save back in 2000.

"I'm going to go to the spa and have a hot tub and massage and relax," Miller said. "That's it, and it's back to work tomorrow." Ryan Miller after clinching the North East division.

the LP of michigan is also the centre of the greenbelt.

with GM starting to turn upward, and crime in detroit way down, its not that bad down there. the real only issue is unemployment and abandoned property. if the unemployment rate falls, detroit will be fine, but with the way the west side of the state is booming... who knows.

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Its a recycling affect. Not only on the land and its use, but for job creation.

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Mr. Pegula, your destiny awaits you sir.

There's a lot of incredible upside to a plan like this.

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mechaphil

It's going to create jobs just to rip that shit down

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Speaking in terms of jobs alone, this plan will create jobs to:
- tear it down
- revitalize the land
- build new farms
- work the fields
- transport and sell the goods
...and that's just agriculturally speaking.

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