GD4ELI Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Some excellent pictures on the Grauniad's website today showing how Detroit is crumbling away. Example (copyright Guardian etc.): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Its all Maggie Thatcher's fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 Its all Maggie Thatcher's fault. Fool - this is Detroit Michigan USA, not Detroit in Warwickshire, England! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombay Bad Boy Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Is this where OCP are going to build Delta City? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 The BBC showed a splendid film by Julien Temple on this subject earlier in the year, (2010 that is) Requiem For Detroit. Brilliant stuff. Edit for name typo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 The BBC showed a splendid film by Julian Temple on this subject earlier in the year, (2010 that is) Requiem For Detroit. Brilliant stuff. Yes, it was excellent. Interesting opportunities in Detroit but the winter is bitterly cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Great shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Great shame In some ways. But remarkable how nature quickly tames the human-bred beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieK Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Is this where OCP are going to build Delta City? We can but hope so, perhaps when that pesky police force is finally replaced by the new ED-209 units. Can you flyyyyyyyyyyy, Bobby? (Did you get the DVD for Christmas as well?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Detroit: a huge city built on the fortunes of the motor industry, now crumbling away as that industry is decimated by inefficiency and a massive pensions burden IOM: a huge public sector built on the fortunes of the finance industry......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Detroit: a huge city built on the fortunes of the motor industry, now crumbling away as that industry is decimated by inefficiency and a massive pensions burden IOM: a huge public sector built on the fortunes of the finance industry......... Great music legacy Motown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Great music legacy Motown Agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadcaster Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Reminds me of wandering around the Castle Mona, we can keep up with the Americans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 not quite, you can buy a 6 bed house there for $1000, brick built with hard wood floors. Those dandara egg boxes would only be a couple of cents worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Shoe Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 anyone here play Fallout 3 (a game set in washington dc decades after a nuclear war)? - coz that's what it looks like. possibly Fallout 4 could be set in strand street after zero-ten disappears? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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