Death of a Once Great City - The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

[MisterVeritis]

Report from Northern Alabama: We are fine, thanks.

As an aside, I am on my deck. The birds are chirping all around. I can hear a woodpecker looking for breakfast on the hillside above me. It is beautiful, cool, and quite pleasant. My rescue cat is laying ten feet away entirely within a patch of mottled shade.

[stjames1_53]

Interesting and good to see another Harper's Magazine fan. It may be that NY is what too much money does to a place. My wife watches 'Million Dollar Listings' which is kinda unreal as they spend more on a small apartment than most people will ever see in their life. But then visit the rust belt cities or the cities in the south that I95 bypassed sometime, and while picturesque they are dead in another sense. I am reading 'Deep South' and you get a real sense of what happens when everything is made in China. While New Yorkers live way above the norm, the rural regions live way below. If NY fell, rural America sank.

"Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." Kurt Vonnegut

The house we sold in Fort Wayne...We bought it for $46,000 and sold it for $62,000. Two floors, three bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, and a full 8' tall basement. While the wife was in CA for work (Verizon) she showed the pictures of the house. She was told that house would have sold for 1.5 million there. That fricking insane..........and that was in 2006. I can't imagine what it's "worth" would be today...............

[Captdon]

That's out towards Erhart isn't it? I live near 71/18 in Montville Twp -- about 7 miles from Lebron James.

It's directly down from the Community College.

I don't really know what was farther down. I never went there. I was as far out as I had to be to avoid Cleveland.

[Captdon]

[QUOTE=MMC;2364698]Medina on a Stone Rd once. [/QUOTE

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[Mister D]

Interesting and good to see another Harper's Magazine fan. It may be that NY is what too much money does to a place. My wife watches 'Million Dollar Listings' which is kinda unreal as they spend more on a small apartment than most people will ever see in their life. But then visit the rust belt cities or the cities in the south that I95 bypassed sometime, and while picturesque they are dead in another sense. I am reading 'Deep South' and you get a real sense of what happens when everything is made in China. While New Yorkers live way above the norm, the rural regions live way below. If NY fell, rural America sank.

"Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." Kurt Vonnegut

That's a strange comment for a supposed resident of Philadelphia which has a high rate of violent crime and a high rate of poverty.

[MMC]

[QUOTE=Captdon;2364741]

Medina on a Stone Rd once. [/QUOTE

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Me-Din-a on a Stone Rd. Well I was hungry.