10 American Cities That Are DEAD Forever
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2023
- In Today's Video, We Will Talk About the 10 American cities that are dead forever. These are US cities that have probably gone beyond the point of no return. The United States has far to many cities that aren't worth rebuilding. These are the Top 10 worst.
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Which city do you think can make a comeback?
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@@stevenporter863 Chicago
I was married to an economic development expert who worked in business and government for her entire career. Any city that is dependent upon ONE industry is in danger of major financial ruin if that industry fails. The safest economies are those with a good mix of various industries that have nothing in common with each other. Don’t put your eggs in one basket!
Any city that gets overrun by democrat politics+high diversity.
@@johnnycab8986 You really need to step up your trolling efforts. You forgot to mention Hillary, LBJ, Eleanor Roosevelt, and everyone who doesn’t look exactly like you.
Same thing with countries Venezuela is an example depending its whole economy on oil
... was married
Well gave you good advice.
The south of Belgium, the French speaking part, is like that. Heavily dependent on coal and steel. The north of the country, which is Dutch speaking, has a much more diversified and service oriented economy. Ironically enough, the south used to be the more prosperous, but now the tables have turned. And it actually threatens the continuity of Belgium as a state.
"... If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care-that's the most expensive single element in making a car- have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south." - Ross Perot
Perot was right and would have been an excellent president.
I voted for him in my first voting election and so did millions of other people, ruining GHW Bush's 2nd term, so Clinton got in.
You cannot even get starvation wages if people are willing to starve for less elsewhere.
Perot was a smart man, he could see what was going to happen. I think a lot of these cities were affected by NAFTA in one way or another.
Perot was a puppet shill for the Clintons, expertly used to split the Republican vote.
Born in 1944 in, and raised in, Detroit. It was such a beautiful city. It was called the "city of trees," because of its thousands of Elm Trees. I loved my childhood there with its magnificent main library and art museum ... and then came the Dutch Elm Disease. The trees all died and the ugly began. The industry was outsourced to other countries. The factories closed. The white flight to the suburbs left the city itself an impoverished ghetto. Then the suburbs themselves emptied as people left the area for other places. I moved away in 1965 and never returned. The Detroit I loved lives on now only in the memories of old folks like me. So sad to see it number one on your unhappy list.
So it's white people's fault? Is that your postmortem?
I lived there for 25 years until this last July. Only left because I needed to take over our family farm. I enjoyed living in Detroit. Sure, it isn't the Detroit you remember but it is slowly evolving into something different that might end up being a bit smaller but better. The whole World will suffer from climate change but Detroit will still be there on that strait that drains the largest fresh water reservoir in the World.
@@anon7068 You mean second largest fresh water reservoir in the World. First one is Baikal Lake. But yeah it is huge anyway.
They said they’re working on reviving Detroit
"White Flight" isn't just the thing anymore, now you can add "Black Flight" to the mix as Black people of means move out of cities and states with rising crime rates and rising taxes, and who can blame them?
Drive away your most productive people no matter what their ethnicity is and you're inviting disaster.
Interesting video. Two suggestions: put a marker for the city on the map instead of just showing the entire state which seemed odd. And your Top 10 only had 9 cities, unless the several cities that didn't make the list were counted as....making the list.
I was also searching for a marker for the cities xD
When I was a long haul trucker back in the early 2010s, I delivered steel to Camden, NJ. There were signs when you turned off the highway saying no police presence beyond that point. We'd stay overnight at the manufacturing facility and would be locked in with a 16' electric fence and guard dogs outside the truck. We weren't allowed to leave our vehicles for any reason until morning.
Crazy wow
The problem is that criminals have too many rights
@@johnswanson3741 They have as many rights as you do. 🤦
You might be glad of it if you ever get accused of a crime - whether you did it or not.
The problem is enforcement. Who enforces the law when police departments are often the largest and most powerful gang in the area?
@@johnswanson3741
The last president was a career criminal.
@@johnswanson3741: The problem is that our government is an international crime syndicate. No wonder there's so much crime in the U.S.
For your watching convenience. here they are:
10th - Cities not on the list (San Franciso, Chicago, L.A., Houston)
9th - Memphis, Tennessee
8th - Gary, Indiana
7th - Pine Bluff, Arkansas
6th - Port Arthur, Texas
5th - Camden, New Jersey
4th - Jackson, Mississippi
3rd - Flint, Michigan
2nd - East St. Louis, Illinois
1st - Detroit, Michigan
That's all folks! Thanks for reading.
Thank you
Thank you!
Houston has always been a crime ridden Wild West but there is always jobs and money.
So dumb to think SF and LA wont rebound from a ONCE IN A CENTURY pandemic event .... California had never had a decrease in population before that. I bet within 2-3 years the numbers will reverse and California will be full-steam-ahead again ... There is simply too much potential across too many industries for that not to be the case.
@@garnettbrown You are very welcome!
Born and raised in Memphis. Spot on about Memphis and mandatory school bussing in 1972 and 1973, ripping my neighborhood and others apart. 70,000 white children left the public schools overnight. Just terrible there. Too sad to ever go home. Very happy in the Louisiana swamp lands. Thank you Fedex for sticking with Memphis International Airport and providing thousands of us good jobs and a great retirement for us.
I was also born in Memphis……but raised in nashville… love nashville…..i still have family in Memphis…..but i seldom got there……but i do love my family! I now live in miami florida! I’m also thankful that fed ex has stayed….however, they stay because Memphis is cheaper to operate from & will give them all sorts of tax breaks..(as does Tennessee)so i do understand… i will still do some investments in Memphis…..i still have hope!
Sorry i do not agree with Detroit!!! It’s coming back…the houses are now getting more expensive…..this might be a good time to invest here!
Sounds like plain racism cause decline to me.
Yes, he left out the racial factor. The most peaceful states are the Whitest states. Cities too? Of course!
I agree. Brush Park is turning into a desirable neighborhood @@Cocoatreat
I currently work in Detroit and I have got to say it’s so much better these days. I don’t know if it will ever be like it used to be in the 1950 to 1960’s. But I can see it evolving into a more economically stable place to live and visit.
I do communications work in the city. There are definitely some areas that still need great improvement but the downtown, midtown and Corktown areas are looking great. Many of the old Millionaire neighborhoods are starting new developments all the time like Brush, Boston Edison, etc.
My Dad was born in 1920 and grew up in southern Illinois. Once, when we were driving over East St. Louis on the highway, I asked what the town had been like when he was young and he said, "It was the prettiest town you'd ever seen." So sad.
It's amazing what diversity can do in such little time.
@@Blood0ftyrants You spelled "white flight" wrong, bro.
@@Blood0ftyrants No it isn't. It's been repeated everywhere.
@@mattheww.6232 Yeah, if you look into every one of these city's plights there is a certain demographic factor at hand.
@@Blood0ftyrants Diversity stops these things from happening. Just look at how white the power structures were immediately prior to the cities' downfalls
Times Beach, Missouri. My ex-wife moved there because she could buy a really cheap house if she paid in full because (smart) people were leaving in droves. Two years later she got evicted when it became an EPA Superfund site, and she expected me to increase her alimony because of her “hardship” of losing her half of the equity she got for our house when we got divorced. To this day, she still wouldn’t talk to me because I’m a “heartless bastard”. Thank GOD we never had children together.
I told her if I went and gambled my half of the equity of our house on blackjack in Vegas… would she pay me money because of it? Yeah… I must be a heartless bastard.
@@floatpool8307 A little bitter are we?
@@GiversumIf women lost half their beauty when they divorced, they'd be bitter too
Stress is not pretty. I understand her being financially devastated but you aren’t responsible for that.
She didn't really lose her half of the equity. The EPA paid people for their homes and relocated them. She must have recovered all or most of what she invested.
nothing like a true love story. my ex was also a c--nt.
I'm surprised that Baltimore is not on this list. I grew up there and loved it but last time I went back (2018), the inner harbor area was completely abandoned.
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That's especially true, now that the Francis Scott Key bridge has closed the port.
I lived in the midwest for YEARS. Gary Indiana and East Saint Louis Illinois have been armpits for as long as I can remember, and I'll turn 70 this month.
Gary started going downhill in the early 60s, then massive white flight ensued, and then it was toast a decade later.
East St. Louis should be number one. Detroit at least has seen a revitalization of its downtown while places like East St. Louis and Gary are just crime ridden dumps.
Hardly anyone lives in ESL anymore
indeed east st louis has no reason to exist anymore
Demographics...it's the key. The people make a place.
@@johnbaldwin2948That is it in a nutshell. These inner cities are made up of a totally worthless populous
I drove through E St Louis about forty years ago. At that time it looked a war zone!
I was born and raised in Camden, NJ and have the scars to prove it! My parents moved us out in the early ‘60’s because they were tired of taking me to the ER after being jumped, robbed and beaten up when I was in my late teens. Had an uncle murdered there, shot in the head sitting in his car, while waiting for my aunt to come out of a bakery. It was a tough town even back then.
I know Camden is and has been a Complete Shit hole for decades.However,I didn't know it was a Shit hole way back in the Early 1960's.Damn.
sailingvesperonthechesapea8111,
Sorry you had to endure that, glad your parents found a way to get you outta there.
I'm glad you survived to be sailing the Chesapeake. You deserve calm seas and jumbo blue crabs forever.
@@nikkiwilder660 I have my parents, may they rest in peace, to thank for that otherwise I probably would have never made my 72nd birthday.
Guess major dont give a hoot
East Saint Louis scared me. War zones in the news looked better. When police stations are mostly boarded up and barricaded behind baredwire, you know your safety is in God's hands. I have felt safer walking through homeless a encampment, into a shady biker bar, and unwittingly walking into a European pub wearing the wrong colors during a championship match between bitter rivals than I did in this city.
You can't write off Detroit. For all its problems, it still has amenities and resources that all the other cities listed don't have.
Common theme for almost all these cities… lost manufacturing. Imagine if North America had never off-shored, and we’d kept up with manufacturing…. My guess is our cities would be thriving.
Seems like a lot of these cities really started getting bad in the 70s/80s
Our main problem is unfettered greed. We want stuff, we want it cheap, and we won't pay our own to produce it, coupled with the massive margin to be gained off imports, especially China, and we got what we got. Coupled with apathy - no one of any kind of power to stand up and call bullshit, and...
We offshore our manufacturing because no American will pay $395. for a Made In USA can opener.
Blame the workers' rights mentality in America. There is too much liability with the American worker!
I disagree. The underlying problem in many of these cities is race-related. (Memphis, Jackson, Pine Bluff, E. St Louis, Port Arthur, etc) The white community began leaving the inner cities in these communities in the 1960s-80s. One of the biggest reasons was forced busing for the purpose of desegregation. It crippled the public school system in several of these towns, which started the "snowball" effect. Ironically, busing had just the opposite of its intended effect in many towns. In Memphis in 1970, the school population was about 60% white, 40% black. Now, it's around 90% black. The white population fled to the suburbs and/or private schools. As a result, the schools in Memphis are more segregated than pre-1970.
Once I was on a weekend trip to St. Louis with my girlfriend and her family. As we exited the science museum, the sky turned green. We got in the car and tornado sirens started blasting. My girlfriend's dad was not a good driver and somehow in the confusion of the moment drove us directly to East St. Louis.
I said "Take me back to the tornado!"
You made me snort-laugh.
My grandmother’s family emigrated to St Louis way back in the day, early 1800’s.
I’ll always root for that city…it’s just so sad because there’s beautiful architecture and people
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You are a wise man.
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Detroit is a lot more complex than what you’ve described in this video. There is a conscious effort to revitalize this city. Come visit and see for yourself. Detroit will never die. We’ve been beaten down badly, but we’re resilient and refuse to give up.
A friend got a job in Memphis years ago which meant he had to move. When he arrived he stopped at a convenience store. Before he could get out of his car someone shot him. Fortunately it wasn’t fatal. Needless to say he called his new job and told them no thank you. I know several people from Memphis and they won’t even go there to see their family
I live here and advise people to stay away for their own safety. There is nothing in Memphis worth dying for unless one has family and friends here, which is the only reason I stay.
Thanks for telling.@@MrRdavis1776
Those large TN cities are really really bad.... most of those Bible belt cities are in trouble....
But just as bad are all the northern and secondary NY cities... Utica, Syracuse, Newburgh.... Rochester is a fucking war zone
Lol hell naw who is going to shot someone just getting out of there car that's not even how a robbery goes
@@2gunzup07
1. People under influence from things like drugs (things that can make a person violent)
2. Could be to prevent them from witnessing a different crime and calling the police
3. Thrill killers who kill people without any reason or influence
The cities on this list are REALLY never coming back. I live across from East St. Louis and have stayed in Pine Bluff multiple times for business. I can say this list is spot on. Move the people, raze the buildings, sell the land, and start from scratch!
But where? That’s the question
I live in Tennessee, and Memphis is our Gotham City. It's truly a rough place. It has some charm like the food, the Mississippi River, Elvis the bass pro pyramid, etc, but it's hard to enjoy it when you feel like you're gonna get shot.
Elvis moved out!
There are demons driving around down there in dodge cars...Go Florida alot from N. Missouri. The 3 bad parts of the drive are..Going through St Louis, Memphis and the 300 miles of Mississippi pine curtain.
Memphis still has a great city park system and a tremendous aquifer making its drinking water among the best in the country. It's central location also works in its favor. It's issues have a lot more to do with the struggles of the nuclear Black family, off shore manufacturing, and governmental ineptitude. If two out of three of those were mitigated, it could make a comeback. Maintaining that the city is somehow cursed by the King assassination strikes me as a bit contrived.
Memphis has some really bad people and close to Elvis' home.
Memphis and many cities near is still dealing with the consequences of the civil war.
Detroit was sad, sad when I stayed with my aunt there for a short time in 1964. I was 14. My aunt lived close to down town. I never left her apartment the entire visit. I saw too much in the taxi ride to get to her from the bus depot.
I have been to several of these cities and agree with most of the list. I will say, as a Marylander for the last 35 years, I would at least give Baltimore an honorable mention. When I moved to MD in the late 80's, both Baltimore and Washington DC were struggling. Negative news coverage from riots and terrible leadership scandals plagued both cities. During the 90s and early 2000s, DC found a way to elect leadership that was either effective, or at least not destructive. Baltimore continued and still elects the worst leadership. The results are in, DC turned around while Baltimore is worse than ever. Baltimore is a port city that should flourish if the US is either exporting or importing. Can't blame it all on the lost of manufacturing jobs.
You are correct about Baltimore, it is aweful in every way. The reason it is not on the list....Money. Anything on the east coast on route. 95, is pumped full of money. If land becomes cheap, it is grabbed up, and pushes the market back up. ANY of the east coast cities can be saved with just some pragmatic leadership.
Since the 2020 riots DC is now getting worse again, some nights it's like a Mad Max movie there, carjackings through the roof. Baltimore, meanwhile, has gotten even worse. The Inner Harbor is now scary in broad daylight, with drugged out wackjobs wandering around like zombies, even though it seems there are cop cars all around.
Baltimore has its issues but it is not as bad as these places.
I lived in Baltimore for my teenage years. You remember the urban renewal thing they tried. Turned out the residents just destroyed everything they fixed. The city gave up and now there are beltway off ramps that lead to nowhere. You can literally take an off-ramp and fall out of the sky. lol
If you think Detroit, MI is bad you should see Harvey, IL. This town has borded up houses and buildings on almost every block
So does Detroit
So does St. Louis
So does Gary, Indiana. Been such for over 32 years!
Years ago I stayed at a large, sprawling hotel in Harvey. This is back before you could jump on the internet and check out the reviews. It did have a swimming pool that was full and presumably open but the water had a distinctly greenish tinge to it and there was a dead squirrel floating in it.
I also remember cutting from one side of the building to the other through an area that didn't look like it was still used even though it was in no way blocked off and was still well lit. It wasn't a guest room area and had some large open areas that went from one side of the hotel to another as though they had been perhaps a restaurant or dining nook or maybe a lobby to the presumably unused conference rooms.
At one point, well traversing one of these hallways I could swear that the only thing that kept me from crashing through the floor was the carpeting.
Boarded up? Go to Flint. There’s complete blocks of missing houses.
One factor that I notice you avoided, except in just two or three cases, is governance. Poor governance has to be factor #2, with unemployment #1 -- even more important than crime, since bad governance LEADS to crime.
Detroit hit bottom circa 2008 and is coming back. In fact I've been looking to buy a property to fix up.
There was a great Reddit post about Detroit. Someone did the comparison of early 1900's photos, to Google Maps street images. They were grim. However, locals pointed out how dated the GMaps images were, showing what those same recently revitalized buildings actually look like today. The Detroit of the 80s, 90s, and 00s, is not the increasingly vibrant Detroit of today. Over the holidays, I couldn't believe how beautiful it was looking. What outsiders don't know, is that a ton of money is being poured into Downtown, and it's slowly spreading outward.
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The inner suburbs of Detroit is very much in decline but the downtown is turning a new leaf. New development is happening, companies are moving back and the downtown is becoming revitalized. I would’ve put Cairo, Illinois in number 1. Actually tho, Cairo is never coming back.
Cairo always was a small river town. I dont think more than 15,000 ever lived there.
He put Detroit on the list because of the areas outside of downtown
@@timothykeith1367You’re right it’s not a city but it’s one that not many people know of.
While traveling I stopped in Jackson , Ms for the night. Got my room and the lady showed me where it was located at the hotel. I drove around the corner looking for my room number and I noticed about half the rooms the occupants had drug the room chairs out side and were just hanging out. Wasn’t a crowd I felt the need to hang with. It was right on the interstate.
I stayed in a hotel in Jackson around 1991 and a woman knocked on my door and asked if I needed a date.
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Should have asked her if it was included with the price of the room! 😋
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs You really can't beat that for service!
Happy New Years Briggs
I grew up in the Flint area. Back in the day, most of my Family worked in the auto industry and it was a boom town. Flint took a punch when GM closed Buick City and some plants. Still struggling when the Great Recession hit in 2007 - 2009, that resulted in massive mortgage foreclosures. Then it took another punch to the gut with the water crisis. However, even with all that, when I visit my Family in Flint, I can see a spark of recovery. Derelict houses being cleared, vibrant universities have grown downtown including Kettering and U of M with beautiful campuses. GM is still actively building thousand of Trucks there. Yes, there’s still a ways to go but I’m still rooting for Flint, Michigan!
My Grandfather worked there, in Flint. I was born in Flint and at age 2 moved to Troy.
@@dizzotizzo69
Um. Careful, Dizzo. You make it sound as though you're agreeing with Austin that there's some hope for Flint, but Troy is now doomed. 🤣
The derelict houses being cleared isnt a good sign. They arent being replaced. If they were putting up new houses in their place, thats a good sign. But instead, the neighborhoods get emptier and emptier while the population numbers continue to decrease. Thats not a sign of a comeback.
So good to hear!!
It’s a good place to perhaps be from but not to currently live. I wouldn’t say bulldozing crack houses into rubble and empty lots being there is recovery. Empty grasslands so druggies use is not recovery in most people’s books.
hey Briggs I happen to live on detrroits east side in the cornerstone neighborhood to be specific , and well progress is slow more than just downtown are coming back .. It's likely that parts of this vast metropolis may never recover from industrial waste and such life is finding a way in many new places
Good job!!!!!
Good list… until Detroit. It will never return to its former glory, but Dan Gilbert has done wonders for downtown and I could realistically see that spread to nearby neighborhoods in the city. It’ll have to rebrand as a mid-sized metro like Pittsburgh or Buffalo instead of trying to maintain major city status.
Detroit is the outlier on this list because it actually is making massive improvements to itself. I dont think Detroit is gone forever. Not by a long shot. Some of the others on your list...maybe are too far gone.
I agree in part. While I don't believe that Detroit will ever go back to the way it was, it is still possible for the city to have a level of sustainable growth in the future. Truth be told, its fast growth in the early part of the 20th century was just too fast, and ultimately unsustainable. The Interstate killed it. The 1967 Detroit Riot killed it. The declining US auto industry in the 70's and 80's killed it. I remember those times growing up, when abandoned neighborhoods were torched on Devil's Night, and multiple homicides every night.
Detroit should not even be listed. San Francisco California should had been tho
I thought Saint Louis, Missouri would be number one. I agree, I don’t think Detroit deserves the number one spot.
@@mjh48059 Detroit belongs on this list. The White flight of the 1970s, the unreal corruption post 2000, and other than casinos no real jobs means the only real surprise is why is the population still around 600K?
@@blackrazer22 Bad, yes. Dead and gone forever was the title though, and that, 3:09 it is not.
GM HQ is in Detroit, employs thousands. 3 Auto plants employ thousands. Huge medical centers employ thousands. Very "Real" jobs. It's not just casinos, cmon by and take a look. 4:45
One city that has gone under the radar here: Anderson, Indiana. Just like Flint, the city tanked when GM shut down its factories there.
Could do a whole show on several companies alone. But even that would be a little off. Without those GM factories, every business went under. NAFTA kind of missed that whole issue.
From Flint, NAFTA destroyed our city. Used to be good hard working middle class people that would work, hunt, fish on time off. Now it's just wasteland and every politician that gets elected is a criminal and just sucks the money and life out of whats left
I was offered a management job at the Michaels that was supposed to be built there. After doing some research and calling a few people in Anderson, it was apparent to me that it was not a town that I wanted to live in. And from what I've seen, there still isn't a Michael's store there.
Having driven through both Baton Rouge and Jackson several times in my life, I have to say this: both "cities" are a collection of about a dozen different suburbs, small towns, and independent political districts rolled up into one area.
That is the most accurate description of the Jackson metro area. I should know I live in one of the suburbs.
@@EFGAlterEgo1 My aunt grew up there and went to Millsaps, and that's how she describes it! Also, my sister went to LSU, so I feel your pain.
Born in Detroit in 39 raised in Detroit safe and loved. We played in the street and watched the cars of those who went to Brigs ball park. Worked at the finest hotels and helped open the finest clubs and all I have left are my memories with sadness to see a good city fall along with so many other America city's but I feel lucky to have knows the best of the best times in America
It's shame Memphis is on this list. I was stationed there in 1970 in a Navy school. Memphis was beautiful and safe, People were friendly.
I lived there at the same time. I was much safer than now, but even then you had to be aware of your surroundings.
The 70’s was a looonnngggg time ago. 😂
not anymore, the city is majority diverse
I was at NAS NATTC Millington 1970 and it was sketchy then.
Detroit will come back. I think you missed the whole Detroit. There are so many parts flourishing. I work for a Detroit proud company. PROUD.
Detroit is absolutely bustling with development and investments, and NOT just downtown or in the Central Business District. Literally billions of dollars invested in downtown, midtown and New Center. Millions spent on various neighborhood projects such as Brightmoor. Lots of new green spaces from the Rails to Trails program like the Dequindre Cut greenway and the SouthWest greenway. All of Brush Park has been redeveloped, The Brewster Projects were razed and the entire area is being redeveloped, the Cass Corridor was un-ghettoized and given a new hockey stadium, Motown is building a new state of the art museum up in New Center. New bridges on the expressways, new buildings going up everywhere downtown as well as dozens of new apartment complexes in Corkown, along with the complete restoration of the former Michigan Central Station by the Ford Motor Company. The College for Creative Studies has been expanded to include a graduate school and a high school. The Riverwalk has been completed and spans from the mighty international Ambassador Bridge all the way to the Belle Isle bridge. Then there is the brand new $1.6 billion Mack Avenue assembly plant that just opened. WE SHALL RISE FROM THE ASHES.
Too little for a city which used to be the fourth largest in the US.
@@pmlb7715 Where is the use in just looking back and comparing Detroit to what it was like in its busiest in biggest times? Sure, it suffered a mighty downfall and it shrinked down to the third of what it used to be once, but even if it never will grow to its forlorn size and glory that doesn't mean that it's dead. detroitfunk313 has written down a ton of the development that's going on in Detroit and that adds to the growing life and opportunity that can be experienced. There's no need of talking or writing these things down. My family is rooted in Wyandotte in the South of Detroit. My Mom and Dad lived in Detroit when they studied at Wayne State University. My whole family still lives in the suburbs, and I visit them on a regular basis. And every time I'm there I spend a week or so in the city of Detroit. It's amazing to see the growth, to whitness empty lots being rebuilt, seeing landmarks like Book Tower or Michigan Central Station renovated and brought to new life. People are still living there and loving their city, showing a good spirit and optimism and the willingness to contribute to the rebirth of Detroit as a livable and likable place. I myself really like the city very much and enjoy every time I'm there, strolling around, having a walk on the riverwalk, visiting the gorgeous museums like DIA or the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, checking out the food scene. As vlong as there's love for the city there is life! Detroit is not dead and it woun't die soon neither. It's perhaps like a woman having gone through breast cancer. Yes, the breast may be gone forever, but the cancer is cured and there is still a lot of life waiting for her if she allows herself to have joy and gratitude for everything that still is possible.
@@pmlb7715 the physical city has declined, yes, but the Metro area is still enormous
I grew up near and worked on the edge of Camden, NJ. I worked on the edge of it for 6 years (some of them were when the city was #1 on the FBI's most dangerous city list). Yeah. It's bad. There are areas around the ports you would see hookers all day long, and the local companies advised workers to leave their cars UNLOCKED, so people wouldn't break their windows to steal stuff. It was actually safer and cheaper to leave them unlocked.
I was born and raised in Camden, NJ also the surrounding suburbs as well. It will always be considered home to me. If you can survive there you can survive anywhere. I moved away 18 -20 years ago. Went in the military and have not looked back. I only visit family every couple years.
I been in Memphis for 39 years... it's been a wild ride.
Detroit is a weird case, because the state of devastation along the northern/western border is unlike anything else I've seen, but I can't agree with it being dead forever. A few reasons:
1. the suburbs are actually in pretty decent shape economically, and they support millions of people
2. the revitalization of downtown is working
3. do not underestimate the power and influence of the University of Michigan, particularly during an incipient AI/robotics revolution
4. the price of property in Michigan is going to skyrocket once the water supply anxiety starts setting in a couple decades from now
I went on google maps and looked at those neighborhoods. Heart breaking. So sad, but there are indications people are trying to rebuild in areas.
Yes, I agree, Detroit is a unique case. It has some very wealthy suburbs, and a metro population similar to that of San Francisco. While Detroit will never be the city it once was, I think the future of Detroit is much more positive than this video may indicate.
Will be interesting when those vacant blocks start being used for agriculture…
Yes I agree. Adding some metro parks would also have a positive impact on the city. @@jontalbot1
Demographics are destiny. With such a huge population of immigrants from the Middle East the future of Detroit could be much different. Be careful what you wish for.
Wow, this video was eye-opening! Sad to see cities struggling, but it's important info.
Interesting take on the cities. But really putting a pin on the location within the state would help
SoCal kid who’s been working in Detroit for the past few yrs. I’d be among the first to complain about all the problems with the city, but it really has no business being on this list. The amount of growth, restoration, and construction that’s occurred since their bankruptcy is undeniable. I think how quickly the city returns to health is going to depend on how well the state of Michigan, in general, can attract new businesses and industries.
he acknowledged turnaround in downtown Detroit and still somehow put it at #1.
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic Detroit is like Rome after the fall. Institutionally and economically too important to truly die and if anything they are better placed for a rebound after hitting bottom. The city's story isn't over yet. If they can diversify their economy into tech they can turn around quick.
Totally agree.
The downtown is coming back-but the outlying neighborhoods are empty-they will never come back, because the population dropped from 2 million down to 600,000.
The problem with Detroit is that it's too big. It was the fourth largest city in the US. The hole it dug for itself is easily the biggest in the US.
Another enjoyable and informative vedio,good job.
Too bad about Memphis,
I visited there 50 years ago and really liked it,
It was clean, vibrant and the people seemed very friendly
The last I had heard about Detroit is there is so much vacant land in Detroit that you can fit the entire city of San Francisco in that vacant land. Detroit needs an investment from someone that will stay there. I seen a story about making green skyscrapers that grow vegetables and raise chickens, pigs, goats, and fish farming. Just one would supply 75,000 people with food they need and it would be cheaper than what has to be shipped there. Also those green growing places could employ the residents of Detroit, thus also enticing many to return to Detroit.
Sounds wonderful, but the gangs won't allow that yo!
The problem is that the City is geographically enormous: you could plop the entire island of Manhattan within its borders and still have plenty of room to spare
There were still parts of Memphis that were off duty to us Navy personnel stationed in Millington when I was there in 1971. We were told there were still pockets of unrest, even though King's assassination had been in 1968.
I was raised in Memphis and in 71 it was ok but now o hell no its a hell hole the house i was raised in is boarded up.
We know each other. Brother
Some folks have. NO ability to move forward. Hence their lack of success in life
I was there. The command mess was terrible.
Yeah, I had to stay at Millington when I was training to be a swift driver. I definitely was not going to roam around during the weekend in that town
Oakland, California should be on the list too. So sad.
Both major sports teams leaving to Vegas
Oakland is nice in many parts. You would know this if you lived there.
Truth. It's a shiz-hole of socialism and woke drivel and filth.
@@OLDMANTEADon’t even try it lol
@@bb-1359 despite some issues, many of Oaklands houses sell in the millions. There is a reason for this.
On a roadtrip, a friend and I wanted to see Graceland. But the traffic through Memphis was hellscape, so we bailed and kept going.
Graceland is beautiful. But I've seen military bases with less security, and in safer locations.
Wishful thinking on SF and LA but I like your optimism.
I live in a nice quiet family-centric neighborhood in Chicago city limits. We like it when you call us Chiraq because it keeps the people who are nasty to homeless people and immigrants out. I live right down the street from both an authentic Chihuahuan Panderia, a SyrianOrthodox Church, and a Catholic grade school. Never Change, Chicago
Arguably the most corrupt large city in the US, although some would say Philadelphia.
Illegal invaders are not immigrants.
I'll bet none of those "immigrants" or homeless people are living in your nice house or on your nice money. You keep your halo shiny with others' sacrifices, like most smug leftists.
Sounds like a total dump. Glad you're happy.
oops racism detected -- the syrian orthodox church is actually in a building from the 1800's, and the chihuahuan panderia has the best pastels you've ever had. I'm sorry you're so closed minded@@alisonb9963
Yea Detroit does have ways to go, but if you go to Downtown or the surrounding area and compare that with Gary, Indiana for example it is night and day. At least in Downtown Detroit you have 4 pro sports teams, skyscrapers going up, major hotels like Cambria, AC Hotel, Godfrey Hotel, with potentially Equinox and Edition hotels, in addition to major retailers like H&M, Nike, Gucci, Apple, Lego, Levi, etc moving into the city.
Rocket Mortgage seems to have invested in Detroit. I think they’re doing pretty good
We'll that sounds promising, it was decades ago (mid 70's), had to find a hotel for the night, they were redoing the Sheraton, but they had a room and told us if anyone comes knocking, don't answer, and I'll be damned someone did come knocking and tried turning the knob, scary night,lol. Drove through Gary at night, heading down to family in Florida, it was another freaky place with all that fire and smoke shooting out of steel plants, or whatever kind of plants, depressing place.
Hope it continues to improve in your neck of the woods.
MGM Detroit is a pretty decent casino as well. Since it's a MGM property the rewards card works at all MGM properties nationwide. This means you can gamble in Detroit and earn for a Vegas trip. It's as good incentive as any to put money in the place if ya like gambling.
Another thing to remember about Detroit. Yes I know the violent crime is still high but the murder rate has come down. The expansion Of businesses Mirror the stadiums, it's quite impressive. I know back in November. Going to Ford field to see Metallica. I was really impressed with the businesses in the surrounding the area.
I say Detroit is far better than most on the list including the residential
Chicago: Trouble is, with sales taxes near ten percent and the second highest real estate taxes in the country (won't even mention the crime rate), crooked politicians and being a sanctuary city for criminals (like the city really needs more), the producers have reached a point where they're fed up and ready to leave.
And not being California where you at least have the weather to compensate for some of it?
This city has earned to be near the top of the list.
You only speak for yourself. I moved there three years ago and LOVE it. It is still less expensive than quite a few cities in the US, too. Of course, you must stay away from certain neighborhoods on the south and west sides. Those are the areas where people are leaving, and those are the areas of historic segregation and poverty. Because of the population loss in those areas, the houses are being torn down in many areas like Englewood. Eventually that will all be built up again and gentrified, like other neighborhoods near downtown that were once skid row, but now considered desirable. Statistically, those moving into Chicago are generally younger, better educated, and more affluent than those moving out, FYI.
@@shellyharris3466 You need to get a job with the Chicago Chamber of Commerce then. I hear there are lots of openings, the result of several former employees who moved to Indiana.
Thanks a lot brother, the Detroit's sport teams are a reflection of the sad realities of this city, the lowly Tigers, Red Wings, Lions and don't get me started with the Pistoneans.
Uh, the Lions just won the NFC North.
Detroit is a unique case. It has some very wealthy suburbs and a metro population similar to that of San Francisco. While Detroit will never be the city it once was, I think the future of Detroit is much more positive than this video may indicate.
My friend and I took a “mini vacation” to Detroit Michigan. We knew nothing about it but we’d both heard of it and assumed it was for good reasons. When we looked up things to do half of the attractions were abandoned places to check out. Should’ve been a red flag but we were young and dumb. When we got there we were shocked that half of the buildings were abandoned. The place we stayed had no hot water or heat and the host wouldn’t answer us. Nonetheless, we still rode around on the public transportation, joined a random tour of a building, and got some good sushi at a nice restaurant. I hope they can come back from this. As sketchy as it is - it definitely has potential and we had a decent time there!
I've heard there are guided tours of Detroit showing the worst areas! Also in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
We tried to do the same thing but it looked so dangerous we didn’t stay and just left the area as quickly as we could my wife and I who is black and from the ghetto. She didn’t want to be there she could see the danger in the place that I didn’t see.
Detroit:” Come for the sushi, stay for the autopsy.”
Sometime to market to foreign tourists: MAGA American Ghetto Tour.
@@jotsingh8917 If you’re suggesting Pres. Trump or Republicans are responsible for the decline of the motor city, you haven’t performed much research. Democrats have systematically destroyed Detroit since 1962. Every mayor since then has pushed socialism and larger government control.
Agree with all your picks except Detroit. Yes, it has its problems, but it continues to build up in the downtown area with housing, restaurants, retail etc. Many of the vacant homes are now being torn down. I have never had a bad time downtown or felt unsafe as long as you don't go looking for it. True, like any other major city, it has its crime and bad areas, but I have traveled to much worse cities in this country, and Detroit is definitely not one of them. Keep up the good work, I enjoy your content. ✌️
I think Detroit has improved VASTLY over the past 15 years. A lot of it has to do with it's lingering reputation. Hopefully it keeps improving and can shake it's bad rep eventually.
Detroit gambled on casinos. In the short term it brings jobs and a tax base. The long term problems are less obvious (addiction, crime and nothing else to attract visitors).
@@MyPhoboThey have vastly improved, and hopefully will continue to do so.
not just torn down, many are being rehabbed and saved as well. that doesn't happen in a dying/dead city
Detroit will come back because it sits on a great lake. When Phoenix and Scottsdale are uninhabitable dustbowls in 20 years thanks to climate change, Detroit will be a verdant paradise.
The first clip of "Detroit " you show is actually Louisville. 😂
Detroit is improving more than other cities on this list. Also, Detroit Police claim as of late November 2023, that homicide rates are down 18%.
DOwn 18% from the 200 % murder rate
My guesses before watching the video: New Orleans, Gary, Flint, Toledo, Peoria, St Louis
I live in New Orleans, it’s booming year round with tourism, conventions etc. 2 major sports franchises, Caesars hotel/casino. Iconic chefs/restaurants. Probably better than Gary and Flint 😂
I don’t believe Detroit should be #1 on the list. Detroit still has potential. As the sunbelt fails the Midwest/Rustbelt states will revive again.
This is a wake up. One of best ,straight up talk.
I grew up in Port Arthur Texas. I was born in the mid 1950s and my memories growing up of a nice, clean city. It all started changing in the mid 1970s. Today the downtown area is dead with a mayor who would have trouble managing a gas station. He keeps getting re-elected. The streets are horrible and many of the homes have been abandoned. It is really sad.
The company I work for has a facility nearby in Port Neches, much the same. While I don’t mind going there for a day, please don’t make me stay at the Holiday Inn.
I used to live in Baytown near Houston and my football team played against high school in Port Arthur before. I thought Port Arthur and Beaumont were stable economy due to oil and gas like in Houston but sad to hear Port Arthur is on the decline.
New Orleans and Baton Rouge is like that too.
How can Bridgeport, CT not make your list. It used to be a monster industrial city. Now is a ghost town.
Wrong. Bridgeport is becoming an affordable bedroom community for super affluent Fairfield County. Downtown is booming with new apartments. Black Rock is stunning and the North End is a working class Mecca. Hardly as bad as the others on this list.
Full of guys who stole dirt bikes and four wheelers. David is correct....Bridgeport needs dishonorable mention
I would say that if the north east lines get upgraded and can travel to and from NYC much more quickly, it could become an affordable place to live in while working in NY, even if the commute may be a bit long
Would you buy there @@drakewatson6164 ? What would be the deciding factor?
They are fixing downtown
I completely agree with your assessment of Detroit.
Chao.
Retired Vietnam era veteran, ex Detroiter, expatriate currently living in México and Colombia.
Briggs, your unbiased reporting is highly respected. You are transparent.
McKeesport, Pennsylvania. A suburb of Pittsburgh that stands as a testimonial of the negative effects of a town without it’s principal economic driver. Factories sit abandoned, the town sits in disarray.
I grew up there. It’s grimy, but there’s pockets where you should go. The US steel industry left us in a bad space. Tax base is very small. Used to have beautiful homes and bustling 70k people.
I think you aren’t thinking far enough ahead. Detroit will recover when people discover how much cheap land is available for development. Detroit won’t die because it has an excellent location on the Detroit River. I feel the same about Gary, IN. It will be bulldozed and plenty of cheap land ready to be developed. I see fresh water being very important in the future.
Detroit should have not made the list. It’s improved substantially and the crime went way down. Many California cities should have made the list. Cz
It’s dead already… nobody is moving to the upper Midwest. Too cold for anything to develop. Too miserable and gloomy most of the year. High taxes and generally a place where people wouldn’t visit on a vacation let alone live in year round.
Yeah, fresh water is something Flint Michigan doesn’t really know about either. 😂
@@jasonknight5863Climate change might shift people's thinking in the coming decades! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 yeah right… I’ll check back with your wishful thinking in the year 2100 and see did the 1.5 degree difference in temperatures make everyone move to the fly over plains of the Mid west. 🤣😂
You probably think that because of “climate change” that Camden New Jersey, South side of Chicago, Milwaukee Wisconsin, Cleveland Ohio, Gary Indiana, East St. Louis Illinois, Baltimore Maryland, Flint Michigan will also come back too along with Detroit am I right ? 😂👎🏻 You are the King of Wishful thinking….
When Congress removed penalties for US companies exporting jobs for things previously produced inside the country the writing was on the wall.
So sad to hear my hometown of Detroit in just dire condition. Born and raised there, educated at Cass Tech HIgh then Wayne State University back in the 70's. It was a good place to raise a family back then. Since moving the west coast in 1989 we've gone back for a wedding at the Henry Ford Museum a few years ago. Sadly, my neighborhood is all knocked down with burnt down shells of homes on the east side. Hopefully there will be some resurgence in the future.
Detroit is doing far better than it was. Downtown is actually nice now. The ring of blight around downtown is the issue.
The surrounding area of Metropolitan Jackson, Mississippi, the suburbs that the narrator mentioned there was mass exodus to, is generally really nice. There's not all of the issues with heavy crime, infrastructure issues, public services issues, etc, etc, that you have within the city limits of Jackson...
Yeah I was in Jackson for a week on business. When you see advertisements on billboards, and TV for window and door bars, you kinda figure out that this place isn’t too safe! I drove to the capitol area around 4:00pm and the whole “downtown” was deserted. No traffic jams here! If the universe had an armpit...Jackson, MS would be it. (Maybe because it is built on an extinct volcano). I understand that with their socialist mayor things have gotten worse.
@@donjohnson3701Jackson’s city government is a clown show. Same applies to most of the cities on the list.
Sad business, indeed.
I’ve been to most of the places on this list, back in the ‘90s when I was an over-the-road trucker.
Your assessment matches what I saw back then.
As a native Baltimorean, I was saddened that our Faire Citee did not make the list. Our burned-out ghettos have some of the nicest plywood windows you will ever see, and our 12-yr-old kids can steal a car faster than you can dump a dead body into the harbor.
Impressive.
LMAO
if it's any consolation, i would have guessed baltimore was on the list.
I like in Arkansas and I definitely have to agree with Pine Bluff unfortunately. It’s sad to see any town/city go downhill.
Thanks buddy. I just bought one of those old brick monsters here in Motown and we fixed it up. Detroit is making a comeback. Massive infrastructure renovations. America will be glad Detroit is still here as industrial revival returns pending the demise of Globalization. Have a little hope and optimism would ya?
detroit is finisished...new orleans will follow
Viva Shinola!
I love my hometown. I do hope it survives. My Moldova friends have started buying the homes for a good price and hopefully they will be the start of something good for the city as well. My great grandmother owned a home right behind Calumet St on the corner. It is ginormous
I've been pulling for Detroit for years. Once one of America's greatest cities, let's hope for a big comeback!
Detroit is well positioned for global environmental changes as well.
Gary native here ❤ there have been many great strides over the last couple of years to make things better. We all hope to grow the city back to its former glory. We have faith
Gary, like Detroit has valuable water frontage
Have you hear the song “the king of wishful thinking” ….🤔
Would love to see your beautiful old train station rehabbed…. brew pub entertainment venue? even a viable train station again….
This video showed my grandparents house in Camden. Very cool! The one picture was of Webster Street.
Beyond the scope of this video is that there are hundreds of small towns in the US that are dead and never coming back. I drove across the country 2 years ago, took my time taking a lot of back roads. So many towns look like they were crushed by the Great Recession years ago, and it never ended. It's just sad. To me the upper mid-west and Rust Belt was hit the hardest, but you can even see this in many small to mid-sized towns in the US where good jobs left - for whatever the reason, and never came back. It's tragic.
I am from the Flint, MI area. Things will not change with the blatant corruption going on from within.Very sad.
Amen.
How could Baltimore, Maryland not be on this list? It's gotten so much worse since the Hellhole it was already when the The Wire was first made.
Just way too important for DC
@@thetimebinder why because of it's port district?
@@Wolfsheim23That helps! 🤣🤣🤣
From Detroit area, lived near Tampa, in Pittsburgh now. I think you missed a couple cities near Pittsburgh, hit harder than other cities when steel collapsed. They are far worse than Detroit currently. Other thing. Detroit did invest in only the downtown corridor, but there are a couple great community organizations taking those vacant lots and turning them into community gardens, or tiny homes, and they have been consistently improving. I have friends that work in the buildings that are getting renovated, there's a need for housing close to the city, so I think Detroit has a revival in her yet, and she's already way safer than just a few years ago. Flint doesn't have the jobs Detroit has, so they aren't likely to make a comeback, but there's a lot of good money to be made in Detroit and I guarantee it's only a few more years until gentrification takes hold of those abandon blocks. It's already starting to happen. One of my Master's research projects was about Gentrification, I know the subject well, and I don't think the downfall was accidental. I think it was carefully orchestrated, the real estate is cheap, and just a couple large scale housing projects (funded by grants) would change the entire trajectory of the city. I am working for the people planning the upgrade to the SMART bus routes, I am intimately tied to this city's well-being and I think you are dead wrong about Detroit.
At least Detroit has the NBA's best team.
Detroit is still heavily invested in the auto making business...well, at least the suburbs are. This is a dying industry. The push to eliminate cars is real. And whether that happens or a switch to EV or hydrogen will determine Detroit's fate. I was born in Detroit and it was amazing to me back then that 80% of the city's population was black while the suburbs were 80% white. I recall reading somewhere that the Detroit area was or is the most racially polarized area in the world. Also, some of the most wealthiest communities are in the suburbs (Bloomfield Hills). Still, I haven't been back to Detroit in many moons and doubt I would ever have a reason to go back there.
@@daveb2280 True. Industry is super important to a city and a state. Business and employees are not gonna simply move to another region because of an improved city environment. Otherwise people just all moved to Hawaii…. It’s also why Chicago can still survive (though not easy) in the Midwest with its historical finance industry.
Agree. Detroit ten times better now
@@daveb2280 Cars aren't going anywhere for decades at least, and with the discovery of new lithium and other rare earth resources here in the US, the investment dollars to make batteries, and the drive to create EVs here in the states, those manufacturing jobs in D-Town aint going no where any time soon. Even if other forms of mass transit were to be created, the infrastructure to create the new methods exists in Detroit, along with the methods to transport the goods to manufacture and finally sale once completed. Ports, airports, rail. It's one of the few areas that has shipping routes to most of the east coast and the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence and other tributaries that head south. It's connected to existing infrastructure that would take billions if not trillions to replicate at this point. And it appears the state leaders are ready to tackle the impending energy crisis this nation will face by starting/funding renewable energy projects. When other states are going bankrupt bankrolling fossil fuel monopolies' dwindling resources, Michigan will be producing energy. And if the can keep their act together, they have control over one of the largest areas of freshwater in the world, which, lets face it, is another impeding crisis for us- lack of fresh water. I think Detroit will be a powerhouse in decades to come and it seems that the leadership of the state is taking the right steps now to position for it.
Millington Naval Air Station is right outside Memphis... it's where many sailors and airmen go to "A" school for their Navy jobs. I wonder how it is now....
Thanks for the interesting list!
Good old Camden. There is an outdoor concert venue there. After the shows, when it's dark, there is no such thing as a "red light."
This is why I always take the ferry home! 😂
As a Memphis resident, I can tell you it is better described as stagnant than outright decline. There are about a half dozen ZIP codes that are truly terrible and very dangerous, but there is still a strong economic base in logistics that keeps the books balanced and the bills paid. Eastern Shelby County (east Memphis and the suburbs) is basically the same as the Nashville suburbs but at a 30% discount because of its proximity to the dangerous ZIPs further west.
As a Memphis resident, I can tell you that Memphis is plunging into CHAOS. Civilization is falling apart. How can you not see this?
Sounds a lot like the Rustbelt Cities with boatloads of old money. Where it's nice, it's really nice, with an almost surreal level of safety. Where it's bad, it's REALLY bad. And anything not bolted to the floor will vanish. The difference "Up North" is that we still have town-by-town Police Departments (Vs. Countywide Police Down South). So you can live in a super safe suburban town with private security caliber Police. But within hearing distance of gunshots from the nearby hoods. Very common scenario in super safe, inner ring suburbs of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Detroit. Probably moreso in hilly cities like Cincinnati and PGH than flattish metros like Detroit, with how the gunshot sounds bounce off the hills.
Memphis is full of buffoons thus its decline
I visited Memphis for the first time back in the Summer and one thing that stuck out to me was just how run down the entire city (outside of downtown) looked. It just has this air of poverty about it. Sure, it has its touristy stuff but man, that city is not somewhere that I would want to move to.
East Memphis is not what it used to be. About the only safe places left are in the suburbs (Germanton, Arlington, Collierville). I wouldn't even bother moving to Bartlett, or Olive Branch. They're the next two dominos to fall.
"Poverty leads to crime..." Tell that to W. Virginia, one of the ABSOLUTE poorest states with one of the lowest crime stats. So... you'll have to find something else to blame crime on! We all know....
Great video I notice there are no California cities on your list, in particular Stockton. What Stockton's story?
That is not a picture of Detroit, That is Louisville Ky. Do you even know
what is in your video?
Detroit should have not made the list. It’s improved substantially and the crime went way down. Many California cities should have made the list. H
How has this happened in the United States of America. Awful.
Canada is even worse and will be the usa in a couple of years.. thank the WEF and buildbackbetter
Anytime you have a question of "How did it get this bad" the answer will just about always come back to government mismanagement, wether its bad policies for self-interest or selling people out to corporations.
I blame it on the lack of proper punctuation.
@@folee_edgeyou probably right,
In money we trust
Thank you !
Are you going to make a video about cities that seemed to have gotten bad but are in the process of making a come back. As I'm at a crossroad in my education, would it be possible to make a video about cities that would be perfect for start up businesses.
Disagree on Detroit. Any city that has 4 professional sports teams is doing something right. Is it the best city in the US to live? No it is not, but what I have read & seen on news & videos is there seems to be an effort to re invent itself to become a better city.
I lived in Memphis in the late 1960s early 1970s.... I would not live there for all the tea in China.. What a "nightmare."
Now say what EXACTLY ruined it. What kind of people?
Who could possibly ever say?
hmmmmmmmmm.............@@thomasjeffersun
Memphis like many cities in the US are getting the Haiti treatment and Rat Utopia Experiment all at once. You can remove certain people all you want, but the results will always be the same. The US needs an economic and social bottom class to remain functional. Also, there's certain groups of people in the US who doesn't want competition and will "Tanya Harding" anyone with the quickness.
There are areas of Memphis that are worse than others.
Wow! I have the double whammy! I grew up in Flint, MI and my parents grew up in Pine Bluff, AR. We visited PB every other year when I was a kid.