The median home price in Detroit is $5,700! Holy shit!

[Rack Fu]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 00332/1010

I know the place is a shithole but still.

[Screw_Michigan]

No jobs (other than drug trade), second worst schools in the nation, terrible municipal services, etc. Jesus, if it wasn't for Indian Village, you could cut that median home price by $1,000.

[Rack Fu]

I just can't believe that you can buy a home for $5K anywhere in the USA in 2009... let alone a major city. What's the unemployment rate there? Isn't it inching towards 30%?

Detroit is so cheap m2 could actually buy a place and move out of that crackhouse he lives in.

[H4ever]

Can't we just give that shithole to Cananda? Or sell it to Cananda at Louisiana Purchase prices/13 cents an acre? Fuck...even accept Canandian dollars for the sale.

Factor in the reduced drain on the economy from that lifeless, resource sucking shit-heap and we make money in the end.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Can't we just give that shithole to Cananda?

We'll pass. Thanks for offering though.

[H4ever]

Can't we just give that shithole to Cananda?

We'll pass. Thanks for offering though.

Muslims live in Detriot. We want to diversify and culturally enrich you. Take it....or else.....we might have to get PC whores on this.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Hi, this is Canada. Sorry we're not in right now, but if you'd like to leave us a message, kindly do so at the sound of the beep...

BEEP

Shhhh! Do NOT pick up that phone! Just let it go to the machine...Look, you know it's gonna be telemarketers or some pre-recorded time-share scam or America trying to unload Detroit again...just pretend we're not home...

[Moving Sale]

On a lighter note:
Detroit’s homicide rate dropped 14 percent last year. That prompted mayoral candidate Stanley Christmas to tell the Detroit News recently, “I don’t mean to be sarcastic, but there just isn’t anyone left to kill” . . .
:doh:

[Terry in Crapchester]

Meanwhile, DrDetroit is looking for a shower rod.

[Jerkovich]

Meanwhile, DrDetroit is looking for a shower rod.

Or a "dirty bomb"

[Screw_Michigan]

What's the unemployment rate there? Isn't it inching towards 30%?

13% in January for the metro area.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?la+26

[WolverineSteve]

The movie industry is moving in. There's a huge operation going in the old temporary MGM Grand building. There's talk of a huge movie studio/lot going up in nearby Allen Park, close to a done deal. There will be jobs to be had and because of it tenants in need of housing. For the cost of one home elsewhere one could pick up a block in the city and bring it up to respectability. Now's the time, the bottom is here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opini ... .html?_r=2

I'm in.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

The movie industry is moving in. There's a huge operation going in the old temporary MGM Grand building. There's talk of a huge movie studio/lot going up in nearby Allen Park, close to a done deal. There will be jobs to be had and because of it tenants in need of housing. For the cost of one home elsewhere one could pick up a block in the city and bring it up to respectability. Now's the time, the bottom is here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opini ... .html?_r=2

I'm in.

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where that guy tried to sell Springfield a "monorail" system?

Yeah...movie industry...

[Screw_Michigan]

Unemployment in the City of Detroit hit 22.5% in January. Hot shit.

[smackaholic]

The movie industry is moving in. There's a huge operation going in the old temporary MGM Grand building. There's talk of a huge movie studio/lot going up in nearby Allen Park, close to a done deal. There will be jobs to be had and because of it tenants in need of housing. For the cost of one home elsewhere one could pick up a block in the city and bring it up to respectability. Now's the time, the bottom is here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opini ... .html?_r=2

I'm in.

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where that guy tried to sell Springfield a "monorail" system?

Yeah...movie industry...

"Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrofied, six-car monorail!"

I think barry needs to pimp monorails to pretty much every town in the country. Wouldn't be any sillier than the rathole they're throwing it down now.

[Moving Sale]

Wouldn't be any sillier than the rathole they're throwing it down now.

Your feeble brain is about to explode isn't it?