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See link:Broomstick wrote:There is at least one man who approached the city council with an intention to purchase property and with money/means to buy it in hand, provided they switched the zoning from residential and commercial to agricultural as the tax rates are very strongly different. So no, it's not a corporation it's an entrepreneur. In at least one case.
Yeah. It's the city that American business created (complete with era-appropriate intentionally racist town planning), and then utterly destroyed with the failure of American businesses. Absolutely amazing, its story should be required reading in schools.Vympel wrote:I've been looking up videos about Detroit on youtube. Man, that stuff is scary. I saw a news report of one single solitary middle-aged woman, the only person left on her street, barricaded in her house (she has deadlocks on the doors inside her house, not just outside) - waiting for senior housing allocation so she can GTFO of an otherwise abandoned neighborhood. Fucking dystopia.
This film from 1965, sponsored by the city government, is also highly educational and ironic:Vympel wrote:I've been looking up videos about Detroit on youtube. Man, that stuff is scary. I saw a news report of one single solitary middle-aged woman, the only person left on her street, barricaded in her house (she has deadlocks on the doors inside her house, not just outside) - waiting for senior housing allocation so she can GTFO of an otherwise abandoned neighborhood. Fucking dystopia.
