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  • AndrewAndrew
    They should film a Fallout like movie in Detroit. Additionally, Art Deco needs to make a comeback in a big way.
  • AprecheApreche
    They should film a Fallout like movie in Detroit. Additionally, Art Deco needs to make a comeback in a big way.
    Maybe the economy will crash so much that I can just buy the entire town of Detroit and turn it into the world's biggest airsoft arena.
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    They should film a Fallout like movie in Detroit. Additionally, Art Deco needs to make a comeback in a big way.
    Maybe the economy will crash so much that I can just buy the entire town of Detroit and turn it into the world's biggest airsoft arena.
    Make real counterstrike maps. You could re-create nearly all CS maps if you demolished the buildings.
  • AndrewAndrew
    Make real counterstrike maps. You could re-create nearly all CS maps if you demolished the buildings.
    Why do that when you have a full on fucking city?
  • ninjarabbininjarabbi
    Make real counterstrike maps. You could re-create nearly all CS maps if you demolished the buildings.
    Why do that when you have a full on fucking city?
    I just meant if you wanted them to be just like the in-game maps.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    I saw that on a Fark a couple of days ago.

    How the hell does a city fall into ruin like this? It's almost unreal.
  • AprecheApreche
    How the hell does a city fall into ruin like this? It's almost unreal.
    I know. It's so crazy. Something like this has never happened in all of history.

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  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    He meant over such a short period of time.

    You could buy all of Detroit, kick out the populace that refuses to contribute to the community, attract some industry based on cheap leases, etc. and rebuild it to be greater than its previous glory. That would rock.
  • Li_AkahiLi_Akahi
    Those pictures look like something out of a survival horror game. Actually, those locations would be great for a giant game of Nerf Zombies.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Is that a reflection of the city as a whole?
  • ChurbaChurba
    That photo-essay reminded me of the abandoned cities and towns you see dotted about Russia.
  • ZeehatZeehat
    Is that a reflection of the city as a whole?
    No, only the wealthy parts.
  • AtheriShadowAtheriShadow
    edited March 2009
    Buy it, then turn it into Geekopolis.
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  • SailSail
    These photos are beautiful.
  • FunfetusFunfetus
    Buy it, then turn it into Geekopolis.
    If anyone's going to do that, now's the freakin' time.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Could you give us some more detail? It is in a password protected part of the website.
  • FunfetusFunfetus
    edited March 2009
    Could you give us some more detail? It is in a password protected part of the website.
    Weird. Not for me. Maybe it's because you're not in the US...
    Anyway, here's the Boing Boing article it was linked from. Essentially, people are buying rundown houses in Detroit for A FEW HUNDRED BUCKS.
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  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    Honestly, I would have looted that piano and the dentist chair.
  • Luke BurrageLuke Burrage
    Could you give us some more detail? It is in a password protected part of the website.
    Weird. Not for me. Maybe it's because you're not in the US...
    Anyway, here's theBoing Boing articleit was linked from. Essentially, people are buying rundown houses in Detroit for A FEW HUNDRED BUCKS.
    Sounds pretty good! It reminds me of the stories from East Berlin about 19 years ago. Of course, here people were just moving into places without buying them. Thankfully the house prices in Berlin are still stupid cheap compared to other places, which is why Pola and I live in a huge apartment and pay less than half what friends in London pay for a one room basement studio.
  • AprecheApreche
    You know, I might consider this. If I can find a cheap house in Detroit that is close to a grocery store, and has fast Internet available, what else do I really need? If the house is stupid cheap, like a few hundred dollars, I could afford to live there for a very long time. In that time, I could definitely complete many projects, and odds are one of them would result in a successful business venture.
  • AlanAlan
    Sounds like a good alternative plan. With how cheap it is to get a business license and with Detroit really wanting businesses to stay there they may even offer incentives to do just that. On the other hand I wonder what the costs of business insurance would be due to the high crime rate. Although, since your living cheaply it may be lucrative.
  • AprecheApreche
    My plan right now is to save as much as I can. I'm also going to work on projects as much as I can in my free time. Then as soon as opportunity knocks, I'm going to rush to open the door.
  • onewildonewild
    I saw that on a Fark a couple of days ago.

    How the hell does a city fall into ruin like this? It's almost unreal.
    Well in 1980s Britain, closure of the pits without providing jobs for miners did lots of damage to miner towns.
  • AlanAlan
    edited March 2009
    My plan right now is to save as much as I can. I'm also going to work on projects as much as I can in my free time. Then as soon as opportunity knocks, I'm going to rush to open the door.
    Its a great idea and I wish more people would plan this way also. Then maybe Detroit wouldn't be in such as mess as it is in parts of the city. I can see blaming the automakers somewhat for the decline, but a lot of it was people not having a disaster plan when they lose their job. If it wasn't for my savings when I got injured and was out of work for three months I would be in a bad place. Akron isn't doing so well either and is going the same route as Detroit. With more layoffs crime is increasing due to lack of knowledge on just handing a basic checking account.(This is just an example but it kind of shows the financial irresponsibility of some of the people living there) There seems to more of those "Consumer Loans" places also which gets people trapped in a loop of paying the payday loans off. I'm glad I just work there for this reason even if I have to commute farther than I would like it isn't a bad place to work.


    There is some great places though to do some urban exploring in Akron though and I was able to see the Akron Air Dock when Goodyear was trying to get some money from tourism. They ended up selling to Lockheed but I'm glad they kept the blimps in Akron.
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  • ZeehatZeehat
    You know, I might consider this. If I can find a cheap house in Detroit that is close to a grocery store, and has fast Internet available, what else do I really need? If the house is stupid cheap, like a few hundred dollars, I could afford to live there for a very long time. In that time, I could definitely complete many projects, and odds are one of them would result in a successful business venture.
    Yeah just don't get shot, mugged, raped, etc. I'm sure it wouldn't be THAT hard...
  • CremlianCremlian
    Yeah just don't get shot, mugged, raped, etc. I'm sure it wouldn't be THAT hard...
    With all the money he is saving, he could probably hire a small private army :-p (or at least a few guards)
  • misakyramisakyra
    I'm reviving this thread because I found these photos. The similarity between them and the Detroit pictures is eerie, especially considering that Detroit is still inhabited.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    Many of those houses that people are buying for cheap are so badly damaged that they will cost a small fortune to be made habitable.

    I'm talking about industrial level gutting where all the copper pipes have been removed to sell for scrap. Electrical wiring has been removed to sell for scrap. Wooden floors ripped out to sell.

    These are not houses you can buy and move into. These are houses even squatters don't want to live in.

    You also have the crime issue.
  • FunfetusFunfetus
    edited April 2009
    Checkout this panoramic photo of a Detroit "ghost street". Crazy stuff.
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  • Mr. SpaceMr. Space
    Many of those houses that people are buying for cheap are so badly damaged that they will cost a small fortune to be made habitable.

    I'm talking about industrial level gutting where all the copper pipes have been removed to sell for scrap. Electrical wiring has been removed to sell for scrap. Wooden floors ripped out to sell.

    These are not houses you can buy and move into. These are houses even squatters don't want to live in.

    You also have the crime issue.
    Plus the job situation. Overall a bad idea.
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