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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:05 am
by Rack Fu
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 00332/1010

I know the place is a shithole but still. :shock:

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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:48 pm
by 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.

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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:17 pm
by 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.

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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:25 pm
by 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.

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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:28 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
H4ever wrote:Can't we just give that shithole to Cananda?
We'll pass. Thanks for offering though.

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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:31 pm
by H4ever
Martyred wrote:
H4ever wrote: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.

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

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:38 pm
by 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...

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

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:48 am
by 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:

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

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:04 am
by Terry in Crapchester
Meanwhile, DrDetroit is looking for a shower rod.

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

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:55 am
by Jerkovich
Terry in Crapchester wrote:Meanwhile, DrDetroit is looking for a shower rod.
Or a "dirty bomb"

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

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:06 pm
by Screw_Michigan
Rack Fu wrote: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

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

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:00 pm
by 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.

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

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:35 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
WolverineSteve wrote: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...

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

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:04 pm
by Screw_Michigan
Unemployment in the City of Detroit hit 22.5% in January. Hot shit.

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

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:31 pm
by smackaholic
Martyred wrote:
WolverineSteve wrote: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.

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

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:50 pm
by Moving Sale
smackaholic wrote: Wouldn't be any sillier than the rathole they're throwing it down now.
Your feeble brain is about to explode isn't it?