Ghost towns

[cda]

How come the US can't have anymore ghost towns???

Isn't the reason some places turned into ghost towns I'd because the reason for jobs dried up?

The gold was all mined, so people moved on down the road??

Is Detroit one of the next ghost towns ??

$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities

 

[fireguy]

Listened to talk radio yesterday while driving to a job. The show was a talk by a person in Detroit government. The solution, get Washington DC to bail out Detroit, nothing about cutting costs, services, just get free money from Washington.

 

[rktect 1]

detroit is on its way. May take a little while longer. Most ghost towns didnt have the population density detroit once had.

 

[peach]

Detroit and Flint are already pretty much there (they are also the 2 most dangerous cities in the US right now).

Flint has been on the slide since 1998 (when I moved to Michigan); Detroit started to decline shortly after the ICC conference there.

 

[mark handler]

...Detroit started to decline shortly after the ICC conference there.

Is there a link?

 

[peach]

I was at the Detroit conference; the bubble burst in Michigan shortly after that.. conference was in 2005 or 2006 .. I lived in Michigan then.. lived the decline, bought the tee-shirt and shut the lights off when I left.