Here's a tour of Detroit:
Want to know why houses only cost a dollar in many parts of Detroit? Watch the video.
This is what anglo disease looks like when it enters terminal stage. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
In developed countries, however, such scenes are quite the thing of the past. Even the worst parts are nothing like this.
With the notable exceptions of the English-speaking parts of it.
Thus the term Anglo-disease. Imho. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
This sort of abandonment of urban cores is an exclusively Stateside phenomenon I think.
Regards Luke -- #include witty_sig.h
Seriously, neither China nor Thailand looked anywhere close to as bad.
Most of the wealth in the US is concentrating in a handful of larger cities. The wealth on display here in San Francisco and Los Angeles was very surprising to me when I first saw it, and I grew up in a city (Minneapolis) that went straight from an agricultural center to a white collar town and as such has maintained its health and prosperity for many decades.
you are the media you consume.