I know this is going to come as a complete shock to all of you, but yes, it’s official… Detroit Sucks.<\/p>\n
#1 – America’s Most And Least Popular Cities<\/a><\/p>\n “Of course, current economic conditions also play a role. It’s no surprise that 90% of those surveyed don’t want to live in Detroit, which ranked lowest out of 30 cities. It’s got a 9.5% unemployment rate and a murder rate 5.16 times higher than the national average.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Does anyone find these figures surprising?\u00a0 Honestly, I’m more amazed that 10% of America would actually consider living in Detroit.<\/p>\n #2 – America’s Emptiest Cities<\/a><\/p>\n “Detroit and Las Vegas are among the worst offenders by both measures–the Motor City sports vacancy rates of 19.9% for rentals and 4% for homes”<\/p>\n “But starting in the 1960s, Detroit began a precipitous decline. Detroit’s population is now 900,000–half what it was in the middle of the century–and many of its neighborhoods languish in varying states of decay.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Detroit is losing population faster than the Lions lose football games… “a murder rate 5.16 times higher than the national average”… hmm…there’s a connection here, I can just feel<\/strong> it.<\/p>\n #7 – America’s Most Miserable Cities<\/a><\/p>\n “The Motor City benefited from our revised criteria this year (we added sales tax and sports teams in addition to corruption).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Evidently Forbes hasn’t been watching the Lions for the last 50 years, or even the last year where they went 0 – 16… a feat previously thought about a 100 times less likely than a team going 16 – 0.\u00a0 But evidently hockey is every bit as important and popular as football, right?\u00a0 O.o<\/p>\n “Yet after more than half a century, countless scholars, politicians, community organizers developers and nonprofit workers have been unable to come up with a solution to fix Detroit.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh really?\u00a0 Has anyone suggested that perhaps Detroit should stop re-electing politicians who’ve been caught red-handed and shown on TV to be stealing the public’s money<\/a>?\u00a0 Maybe the big 3 could stop developing new cars that Toyota and Honda have had on dealer lots for the past 10 years<\/a>?\u00a0 Or wait… this may be a radical idea, but let me take a “stab” at it… How about Detroiters stop KILLING each other?!?!<\/strong><\/p>\n And by the way, our house is still up for sale if anyone’s interested. I know this is going to come as a complete shock to all of you, but yes, it’s official… Detroit Sucks. #1 – America’s Most And Least Popular Cities “Of course, current economic conditions also play a role. It’s no surprise that 90% of those surveyed don’t want to live in Detroit, which ranked lowest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranting-and-raving","tag-detroit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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