European Tribune - Comments - Saturday Open Thread

Saturday Open Thread | 135 comments (135 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: an everyday story of Baltimore (none / 0)

No, it's probably not as bad as Detroit, but I used Detroit because it's the first major city that comes to mind when people talk about failed cities in America. Detroit makes Baltimore look like Silicon Valley.

But then, in fairness, Detroit (and Michigan in general) also doesn't have a bunch of wealthy cities nearby to pump at least some money into it.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 06:30:39 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: an everyday story of Baltimore (none / 0)

Detroit also doesn't have a major research university. That helps quite a lot - big captive population of students and faculty, plus tons of jobs. That's especially true of Johns Hopkins with its huge medical side.

by MarekNYC on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 06:42:21 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: an everyday story of Baltimore (none / 0)

True. The closest Detroit has to that is UM-Ann Arbor, but that's out W of the city a good distance.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 07:19:51 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: an everyday story of Baltimore (none / 0)

A professor of mine at the university came home from there. He told his first big difficulty when going to Baltimore was to find a flat that, in his own words, "is not in the ghetto".

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 at 03:02:56 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Saturday Open Thread | 135 comments (135 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

. Home
. About
. Contact
. New User Guide
. FAQ
. ET Editorial Guidelines
. Search
. Search (Google)

Username:
Password:

. Make a new account
. Reset password

Recommended Diaries

Socratic Economics XII: Utopian Government Finance
by Zwackus - May 25
241 comments

A Star is Born
by ChrisCook - May 23
23 comments

The French newspaper Le Monde reports 1.5 million living the...
by Democrats Ramshield - May 27
4 comments

$1,000,000,000,00
0 or what we must remember
by Metatone - May 19
69 comments

The balance of anger and fear
by Frank Schnittger - May 17
44 comments

Stable pricing is to metaphysics as variable pricing is to...
by Upstate NY - May 16
8 comments

Another NRW election
by DoDo - May 13
118 comments

Bundesrat saves PV (and loses Röttgen)
by DoDo - May 12
18 comments

Recent Diaries

The French newspaper Le Monde reports 1.5 million living the...
by Democrats Ramshield - May 27
4 comments

Socratic Economics XII: Utopian Government Finance
by Zwackus - May 25
241 comments

A Star is Born
by ChrisCook - May 23
23 comments

$1,000,000,000,00
0 or what we must remember
by Metatone - May 19
69 comments

The balance of anger and fear
by Frank Schnittger - May 17
44 comments

Stable pricing is to metaphysics as variable pricing is to...
by Upstate NY - May 16
8 comments

A little American intercine battling
by rootless2 - May 14
27 comments

Another NRW election
by DoDo - May 13
118 comments

Bundesrat saves PV (and loses Röttgen)
by DoDo - May 12
18 comments

The mainstream German Magazine Spiegel asks, has the US mixed ...
by Democrats Ramshield - May 10
27 comments

Short Term Climate Forces: Black Carbon, Methane, and...
by gmoke - May 9

Twenty days of Crisis for Cameron
by ceebs - May 9
22 comments

SYRIZA and the Eurocrats: a letter of intent
by talos - May 9
363 comments

French Parliamentary Elections: a look under the hood
by Bernard - May 8
59 comments

Sunday Train: The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Iowa...
by BruceMcF - May 6
18 comments

Why haven't we had WWIII yet?
by Migeru - Apr 30
258 comments

More Diaries...

Occasional Series

Click for full list