It seems like after the final Buick City was demolished in summer of 2003 Flint just fell. I'm 30 and I've experienced the last good days of Flint, Michigan were the city was a good place to live. Flint had their fair share of problems but damn this town had a whole lot of schools, stores, parks, and things to enjoy. By 2001 the city was changing and you took notice. In 2004-2005 the change was in your face, and by 2006-2009 Flint was lost.
Your descriptions of the years Flint starting going downhill are extremely precise, but I saw it start declining at an earlier time that still matches up with your experiences. I moved in from Detroit in mid-1993 and moved out to Howell in 1995, then I moved back in mid-1999 and moved back out in 2003. Each time I came back and the city got drastically worse Flint was something else in 1993 still though, it was very alive and still thriving. Watching it drastically decay from 1999-2005 was something else, and after that Delphi plant finally closed, well, man..... Man, the Klock Korner was still alive in 1999 :/
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
Really, there was one main source of income in Flint - General Motors. And it left, completely. Flint, nowadays, is like Calcutta. I was born and raised in Flint and the decline has been epic.....and pretty freaking depressing. Flint still has a few "nice things" - like Whiting Auditorium, the art museum, etc.....but everything is surrounded by blighted ghettos. That gal says she gets asked, first, "Where is the bathroom?" The answer, now, is pretty much anywhere. RANDOM UPDATE: No expense was spared on the pyrotechnics in this promotional video. It's kind of a metaphor for the cheeziness of AutoWorld itself. And I went to college with the guy playing the gas station attendant. He's probably, homeless, now.
I was in drama class with that guy in 1971 at Mott Community College in Flint...lol - seriously. When I first saw this movie I recogonized the guy immediately....can't remember his name.
It's not GMs fault. Corps which are capitalists in nature go to where ever is most profitable. Notably prison labour and Mexico. This is why you shouldn't base an entire regions economy solely on one company or industry. I'm a Flint native in my 30s. I've watched the decline first hand and I've seen opportunists sweeping in. Its about the long game here. Flint is located in a prime spot naturally. When Land Bank started comming in and buying up land and buying out home owners they had a plan. Now most of Flints land is owned by them. They've done some dirty shit to get people's land, such as purposely blighting a couple properties in an otherwise nice neighborhood because people wouldn't sell. This drives down property values until people sell because they see their values just continuing to plummet everytime someone does sell and they blight another property out. I've litterally watched land bank buy a house and withing one week smash all the windows out, remove the front door, board up half the windos and then spray paint bullshit on the outside right in the middle of a nice neighborhood. Then they go and start approaching the people about selling before their value goes to zero. They want the land because some time before the next century the will re develope Flint.
Its underhanded and I agree with you but that company buying up Flint definitely knows whats up and I agree with their long play. Flint is in a damn good area still that has pretty damn good potential that was unfortunately not fully realized because of pettiness and stupidity. I'm 42 now and I'll make a decent bet that they'll start making their good moves before I'm 60
We can blame GM leaving but Flint has the one thing in common with other failed cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc. DECADES OF DEMOCRAT RULE-mayors, city councils, etc. No worry they still try to blame issues like the water crisis etc. on Republicans even though Democrats rule. Example: look at the U.S. now, no need to further elaborate.
Christ - it's both parties. It was greed from every direction. We live in a shareholder economy and GM figured they could make more money building things in Mexico, etc. And the water crisis was a Republican governor sending a bunch of "experts" to Flint to convince the City Council - who are not scientists nor experts - that getting water from The Flint River was perfectly safe. They were sold a bill of goods by a Republican governor and his cronies. It wasn't Democratic rule that caused the water crisis, Einstein. You can have your one-sided, poorly informed beliefs, but you can't have your own facts. I lived there - I know what happened. And the world is not binary where one side is all good and one side is evil. Moronic comment.
The poorest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Most of those states are pretty heavily conservative except New Mexico. On the other hand New Hampshire, Maryland, Utah, Hawaii, and Minnesota are the states with the lowest poverty rates and those are all pretty liberal states, except Utah. Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago are far from failed cities, they are economic, cultural, and population powerhouses. Most cities in the U.S., even those in red states, tend democratic, because republicans generally have socially backwards and agrarian focused political strategies that are ill equipped to organize anything beyond a farming community or suburb. Liberals are pretty busted in a lot of ways, but conservatives generally have the same ineptitude but worse, because of their anti-social, theocratic policies. No regard for quality of life and their solution to everything is to defund any social safety net, encourage mass incarceration to address social problems, and privatize public services for profit.
@@eagerlawson6402 Thank you, I'm getting tired of Republicans using that extremely inaccurate argument to try and make themselves seem vastly superior. Shit like Flint is very much part of their fault as well.
I do wonder how long it'll take you to figure out how bad Republicans are compared to Democrats. It took me 20 years before I caught on to their bullshit and switched fully to liberal. Maybe you too, will stop being ignorant one day and be less blind and hateful
@@Turbotef I'm not being hateful but you are apparently in denial- the facts don't lie and you assume that I am dedicated to one party. At least the GOP Republicans didn't boo and eliminate God from their 2012 party platform. Are you digging that and the corruption and slaughter of babies? Are you the one that's hateful and ignorant or just UAW brainwashed? 20 years? I've been voting for nearly 60 years, son and I'm ashamed of republicans like McConnell, Collins, Liz Cheney, and other RINOS although I have never voted for those fakes..
Breaks my heart
When the Flint Tropics folded, the tourism dried up.. Everybody Love Everybody!
I love this film. It’s like watching a train wreck
LMAO. You'r exactly correct.
Roger and Me....👍👍👍
I took my dump after that nice lady told me where the bathroom was. Ahhhh! Now it’s time to see Flint! Where’s Nathan J’s?
It seems like after the final Buick City was demolished in summer of 2003 Flint just fell. I'm 30 and I've experienced the last good days of Flint, Michigan were the city was a good place to live. Flint had their fair share of problems but damn this town had a whole lot of schools, stores, parks, and things to enjoy. By 2001 the city was changing and you took notice. In 2004-2005 the change was in your face, and by 2006-2009 Flint was lost.
@@shootermcgavin7777 Yes it is and its sad.
Your descriptions of the years Flint starting going downhill are extremely precise, but I saw it start declining at an earlier time that still matches up with your experiences. I moved in from Detroit in mid-1993 and moved out to Howell in 1995, then I moved back in mid-1999 and moved back out in 2003. Each time I came back and the city got drastically worse
Flint was something else in 1993 still though, it was very alive and still thriving. Watching it drastically decay from 1999-2005 was something else, and after that Delphi plant finally closed, well, man.....
Man, the Klock Korner was still alive in 1999 :/
I was born and raised in Flint lived there most of my life left 14 years ago, that's 14 happy years ago!
weird recommend video but fitting i suppose. My parents were born around there I lived in places like flint,burton, grand blanc on and off from 84-99 then escaped the cold lived in oklahoma until nov. 21 moved to backto mi. clio this time but visited parents in flint a few times but moved back to oklahoma a year later. Im not a snow or fan of my family lol but I do have some respect for flint history. I walked the waterstreet pavillion before it was closed, road on the train at crossroads village and one year trick or treat in a blizzard dressed as godzilla lol also to this day I eat olives on my hamburgers because of halo burger.
This is where Steve Carrell got his inspiration for Michael Scott.
heres some meta real life, i grew up with a michael scott in Flint actually lol
Really, there was one main source of income in Flint - General Motors. And it left, completely. Flint, nowadays, is like Calcutta. I was born and raised in Flint and the decline has been epic.....and pretty freaking depressing. Flint still has a few "nice things" - like Whiting Auditorium, the art museum, etc.....but everything is surrounded by blighted ghettos. That gal says she gets asked, first, "Where is the bathroom?" The answer, now, is pretty much anywhere. RANDOM UPDATE: No expense was spared on the pyrotechnics in this promotional video. It's kind of a metaphor for the cheeziness of AutoWorld itself. And I went to college with the guy playing the gas station attendant. He's probably, homeless, now.
That would be an insult to Calcutta. It seems to be in better shape than Flint, and is attracting high tech industry like other Indian cities.
@@kgoundan Good point.
Now that we're in the 21st century, I'd like to do a shot-for-shot anniversary recreation of this.Just to show how things have changed.
Thor Swenson
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Cafeteria: No
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Do it Frank.
1:40 was that gas pump attendant a laid off GM worker?
I was in drama class with that guy in 1971 at Mott Community College in Flint...lol - seriously. When I first saw this movie I recogonized the guy immediately....can't remember his name.
Aww, the guy didn't stand a chance against the failing American car industry.
Trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
That was about the time flint started going downhill thanks to GM laying off thousands of employees.
DIDN'T take much druggie moved in crime done.
Roger & Me
What's the background music playing here? 1:06-1:25, I've tried Shazaming it but it doesn't get me any results.
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@@KikiKaraoke19 Thanks for the help.
@@JHollowayNetwork you responded on such short notice. But you welcome
"Where's the bathroom" also, "Your money or your life"
It's not GMs fault. Corps which are capitalists in nature go to where ever is most profitable. Notably prison labour and Mexico. This is why you shouldn't base an entire regions economy solely on one company or industry. I'm a Flint native in my 30s. I've watched the decline first hand and I've seen opportunists sweeping in. Its about the long game here. Flint is located in a prime spot naturally. When Land Bank started comming in and buying up land and buying out home owners they had a plan. Now most of Flints land is owned by them. They've done some dirty shit to get people's land, such as purposely blighting a couple properties in an otherwise nice neighborhood because people wouldn't sell. This drives down property values until people sell because they see their values just continuing to plummet everytime someone does sell and they blight another property out. I've litterally watched land bank buy a house and withing one week smash all the windows out, remove the front door, board up half the windos and then spray paint bullshit on the outside right in the middle of a nice neighborhood. Then they go and start approaching the people about selling before their value goes to zero. They want the land because some time before the next century the will re develope Flint.
Its underhanded and I agree with you but that company buying up Flint definitely knows whats up and I agree with their long play. Flint is in a damn good area still that has pretty damn good potential that was unfortunately not fully realized because of pettiness and stupidity. I'm 42 now and I'll make a decent bet that they'll start making their good moves before I'm 60
Holy shit
Jackie is Pam.
Flint a trash town now looks like Gary Indiana.
What a disaster
We can blame GM leaving but Flint has the one thing in common with other failed cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc. DECADES OF DEMOCRAT RULE-mayors, city councils, etc. No worry they still try to blame issues like the water crisis etc. on Republicans even though Democrats rule. Example: look at the U.S. now, no need to further elaborate.
Christ - it's both parties. It was greed from every direction. We live in a shareholder economy and GM figured they could make more money building things in Mexico, etc. And the water crisis was a Republican governor sending a bunch of "experts" to Flint to convince the City Council - who are not scientists nor experts - that getting water from The Flint River was perfectly safe. They were sold a bill of goods by a Republican governor and his cronies. It wasn't Democratic rule that caused the water crisis, Einstein. You can have your one-sided, poorly informed beliefs, but you can't have your own facts. I lived there - I know what happened. And the world is not binary where one side is all good and one side is evil. Moronic comment.
The poorest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Most of those states are pretty heavily conservative except New Mexico.
On the other hand New Hampshire, Maryland, Utah, Hawaii, and Minnesota are the states with the lowest poverty rates and those are all pretty liberal states, except Utah.
Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago are far from failed cities, they are economic, cultural, and population powerhouses.
Most cities in the U.S., even those in red states, tend democratic, because republicans generally have socially backwards and agrarian focused political strategies that are ill equipped to organize anything beyond a farming community or suburb.
Liberals are pretty busted in a lot of ways, but conservatives generally have the same ineptitude but worse, because of their anti-social, theocratic policies. No regard for quality of life and their solution to everything is to defund any social safety net, encourage mass incarceration to address social problems, and privatize public services for profit.
@@eagerlawson6402 Thank you, I'm getting tired of Republicans using that extremely inaccurate argument to try and make themselves seem vastly superior. Shit like Flint is very much part of their fault as well.
I do wonder how long it'll take you to figure out how bad Republicans are compared to Democrats. It took me 20 years before I caught on to their bullshit and switched fully to liberal. Maybe you too, will stop being ignorant one day and be less blind and hateful
@@Turbotef I'm not being hateful but you are apparently in denial- the facts don't lie and you assume that I am dedicated to one party. At least the GOP Republicans didn't boo and eliminate God from their 2012 party platform. Are you digging that and the corruption and slaughter of babies? Are you the one that's hateful and ignorant or just UAW brainwashed? 20 years? I've been voting for nearly 60 years, son and I'm ashamed of republicans like McConnell, Collins, Liz Cheney, and other RINOS although I have never voted for those fakes..
All Whites in Flint in the 80s?!?!?!?! Mmm mmm, at that time, many abandoned properties....the decay had began in the 70s, much before this video....