An American City Where the Government Barely Exists

Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by skadamou on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:08PM (#15322684)

I think you make a good point. You shouldn't write off the whole Detroit area because of a few articles about specific neighborhoods. But Detroit/Warren/Dearborn essentially have the same GDP as San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara yet twice as many people live in the Detroit area

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP19820

https://www.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/pdf.cfm?fips=19820&ar...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP41940

http://www.bestplaces.net/metro/california/san_jose-sunnyval...

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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by mikeyouse on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:18PM (#15322896)

That only strengthens my point though -- The original commenter said we should just pay everyone to leave since there's no hope of sustaining an economy there.

If you can pay 4 million people to leave, you can pay to fix whatever services they are lacking -- and then you'd have 4 million people in a area with hundreds of large companies and good government services!

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