Detroit: A modern day ghost town (Michigan 2009)

[Yobachi2007]

Whoever told him Detroit could recover in 4 to 5 years was a lying fool, because that place ain't coming back in the next 2 years.

He's foolishly under the impression that Detroit's woes are due to the current rescission. Detroit has been in recession for decades. It's just gone to a new level in the last couple years, but its been an economic Black hole for at least 20 years.

[slimredd1]

FUCK U

[Stratovair]

Corporate greed fueled this in large part. The big three had the market largely to themselves, thinking no imports would ever be able to dethrone them. When customers left them in droves due to the junk they were building, the companies looked for even cheaper ways to manufacture, and that started the big job declines due to the unskilled labour jobs being exported. Population declines, the value of housing drops, no buyers, a nasty recession, it's just a downward spiral. Renewal is on the hor

[briquetaverne]

A hectar is a metric measurement and is almost 2.5 acres (actually 2.47)

[ImmaSuperTeen]

Hey, did you ever think to visit the Boston-Edison historic district? I didn't think so. Well, the homes there are very beautiful and historic, what few houses that are for sale there would be worth millions once the economy recovers. Ever thought about the areas around New Center? Well, those aren't exactly that bad either. Maybe you should focus on the good parts of the city, rather than the bad.

[Txman1996]

@ImmaSuperTeen There are good parts to that city?? That's like saying that there are good parts to a DMZ. 400K abondend homes? Please.

[ImmaSuperTeen]

@Txman1996 How many times have you been to Detroit? Probably zero. So you don't know what the city is like. I live in Detroit, and my house cost close to 1 million dollars and is on a wonderful street

[MrJudas666666]

the abadoned houses remind me off manchester england

[goford90]

why are you guys being so racisist!!!!??? !!!!! stop blaming black people.

[MMA94NYC]

Buffalo, St. Louis, some parts of Chicago and even NY look like this. The crime rates are going down in these areas except NY. Great video btw

[Gabbo2010]

Detroit is gone because Wall Street let the American auto industry collapse, the biggest source of employment was the auto industry which is in shambles. Blame the black people?? Lol, they go no power, blame the people in power, those who run Wall Street and the corporations.

[dreamihad]

@Gabbo2010 Specifically blame Nafta for sending our jobs to MEXICO and CANADA

[TheFabulousAnouska]

@dreamihad Your jobs didn't come to Canada! They went to China!  And what about your own corpoorations who funnel jobs in the tech industry to India? So don't blame us -- we don't like Free Trade up here either!

[dooalittledippsy]

@dreamihad Definately a dreamuhad! Canadian jobs are gone to Mexico and China as well! FOOL. I bet you dont vote in elections do you?dumbass.Make sure you vote next time and check in the box....Ron Paul

[dreamihad]

@dooalittledippsy The dude already lost , Austrian economics never works , never will

[dooalittledippsy]

@dreamihad And American economics do:(

[gillianseed]

It's been almost 3 years, and it's still a terrible place to be. -Their hope hinges on a Robocop statute being built, and the Lions making the playoffs.

[liltaytay222]

yo bicth detroit east side 6 to da 7 luv it hoe

[oingofan]

Dude sounds like a mix between Borat and a Muppet.

[TheAwakian]

I wonder why people always point the finger at either Jews or black people. People who don't study history are doomed to repeat it -- sooner or later the global elite will put a sting in the air and force Americans into FEMA camps, regardless of skin colour or creed. Don't let it happen, start loving each other.

[xDevita]

Are there any good parts to Detroit?

[helvis66]

@xDevita HELL YEAH!!!!

Steve's Bar. It's right next door to St. Andrew's Hall.

[evad520]

@xDevita Yes, there are a lot of good parts of Detroit.

[vanvanbluz]

@paulgarilao que?

[caljackr]

If they would get rid of all the blacks and move in Asians or Jews, the place become an economic paradise.

[grizzleybearz282004]

that is sad to see those home should be fixed up and giving to pepole at low monthly rates but no that would happen because there to much greed im sick of it the U.S need to start doing there own work again like years ago and not giving our work to other cuntrys that a major reason why we have lack work and item being made cheaper then what is was made here in the usa and im not trying to be a jerk but what can you buy today that dosent say made china on it thats what is hurting us

[TheGuyYouKilled]

Fallout: Detroit

nothing changes

[cbohar84]

Four to five years to recover? Never gonna happen

[groofoot]

lol 0:31 - Bonkruptcy

[bigtown]

This gook is a joke

[Craigitzy11]

"there are thousands of hou" CLUNK.. GIMME YO CAMERA BITCH!!

i was waiting for something like that.

[bigtown]

Detroit's making strides (huge strides) in repairing it's relationship with the burbs and businesses. #6 on the list of happiest cities for young professionals, yet not a peep from youtube racists. The city wants to bury Kwame along with it's negative past. There's several positive videos about the city, yet jerks search the negativity because their racism makes them want to see an fellow American city die, and they will do whatever it takes to see it happen. They make me sick to my stomach.

[bigtown]

YOU DUMMIES GET TOGETHER AND POST THE SAME PICTURES OF THE SAME NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE SAME HOUSES OF THE SAME PART OF TOWN AND CALL IT ALL DETROIT BECAUSE YOU WANT TO KEEP WHITE PEOPLE AWAY. NEW DETROIT HAS OPEN ARMS FOR ALL RACES (NOT YOU SLOW WITTED FUCKS THOUGH) COLLEGE EDUCATED YOUNG BIG THINKING WHITES WHO HAS ACTUALLY INCREASED BY 5% IN ONE AREA ALONE, AND GROWING,(DETROIT LIVE) SO THE OLD RACIST AGENDA YOU FUCKTARDS HAVE IS SOME OLD SHIT. GET A LIFE YOU RETARDED MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Elmore3141]

Detroit is about 83% negro. 

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 and you're 84% dumb ass!

[Elmore3141]

@bigtown I see that you have no argument.

The city of Detroit is 83% negro. The city is run by negroes. The negro mayor who "served" prior to the current mayor is in prison.

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 Stockton Cal, run by White people, has a predominately white population, also has an unemployment rate of 16.7% several percentages above the national average. Did I mention white people are running it. Don't fuck with me racist craker white boy.

[Elmore3141]

@bigtown Stockton is only 43% white, you moron. Besides that, the subject here is Detroit, which is 83% negro. Go suck your mammy's teats, black boy.

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 I thought that's what white people did, fuck their sisters and mothers, white boy..

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 AN 82% INCREASE IN IT JOBS YOU MORONS, BEST IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW, BUT AGAIN, YOU BUSTERS WANT THE CITY TO FAIL, TOO BAD MORONS IT AINT HAPPENING. WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE BIGGEST HYPOCRATE FUCKS IN THE COUNTRY, YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS, NOT A GENUINE BONE IN ALMOST NONE OF YOU PEOPLE. VERY FAKE AND PATHETIC!

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 43% MAKES THEM THE MAJORITY YOU IDIOT, I'M SURE THE OTHER 57% IS MORE THAN ONE RACE, FUCKING DUMMY.

[Elmore3141]

@bigtown 43% is not a majority, brillo head. It's a plurality. It's obvious that Stockton would be better off if its percentage of white people were higher rather than lower. The fact that you can't see that or admit it means you're a dishonest moron. Most cities the size of Stockton have a larger percentage of whites, and for that reason they are better off, not worse off. Now go axe your mammy what she think about dat, chile.

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 Idiot, Ann Johnston, the mayor of Stockton, is white. City Council, all white. All important figures in city government and planning, white. You racist idiots want to make an AMERICAN PROBLEM, a race issue. Why? Because racists are typically dumber than non racists.

[codeeLS6]

@Elmore3141 lmfao brillo head.

[bigtown]

@Elmore3141 INTERESTING HOW A BLACK POLITICIAN BECOMES A "BLACK POLITICIAN" WHEN IT'S SOMETHING NEGATIVE SURROUNDING HIM, YET WHITE PEOPLE SEEM TO NOT RECOGNIZE RACE WHEN WHITE POLITICIANS LIKE Rod R. Blagojevich DO UN-ETHICAL THINGS, WHITE PEOPLE ARE SO FAKE AND PREDICTABLE, IT'S AMAZING HOW EASY YOU PEOPLE ARE.

[Elmore3141]

@bigtown Perhaps you should move to one of the many black-majority African countries, where there are few white people to annoy you or oppress you. But, no, you're just barely smart enough to realize that blacks who live in white-majority areas of the of the U.S. and the world have the highest standard of living of all blacks. Countries populated mostly by negroes and run by negroes are poor and brutal hell holes.

[Trandana]

@Elmore3141 not true, look at libya, it was the most prosperous country in Africa before NATO decided to drop "democracy" from b-52 bombers

[Elmore3141]

@Trandana Libya is not and was not a BLACK-majority BLACK-governed country.

[somenoobz]

@Elmore3141 first rob africa from its resources, then bring slaves to the us, never give them the same opportunity, discrimination and racism. they live in poverty and all they know is how to survive. many big countries like the us are responsible for dealing arms etc to poor countries, and guess what happens then.

[meldon100]

people just get off on bashing the 313 huh? smh. i like how you didnt record the areas that are populated with nice people and nice homes. every major city has its good and bad parts.

[bigtown]

@meldon100 foreign pricks love to go to Detroit and seek out the worst possible areas, then after their done they go gamble at one of the casinos and have dinner at one of the nice restaurants downtown. Get that little.

[meldon100]

@bigtown and thats a damn shame. smh

[howlinwolfgangnester]

Its because it will be a lake one day like it was a long time ago

[Reneeforsure]

It's really interesting to read all your comments. They are so diffrent. I was chatting with quite some people living in Detroit. Some of them told me it's the best place to live. Others told me it's the most fucked up city in the world.

I would like to go there on my own and make my own experiences. I'm really interested in this topic.

[uzijohn]

Detroit’s problem is the "grey matter" between its resident’s ears.

That city is never coming back, or at least not until its current generation expires.

They embraced liberal propaganda "hook, line & sinker" does anyone think those progressive politicians or union bosses are living in those beat-up shacks???

Hell no, those carpetbaggers are long gone...

[dervish2173]

Well it's good for homeless people right? a lot of shelter... 

[hzjs4n]

is because the rich companies decided put its plants in poor countries like mexico, India, China, etc.

[uzijohn]

@hzjs4n,

No, it's because the failing automotive companies had no choice but to leave, excessive overhead and regulations were killing them, besides rich companies don't need bailed-out's do they?

[bigtown]

@uzijohn 82% increase in IT jobs over the past couple of years, higher than silicon valley. Keep praying for it's demise you racist crackers, it aint gonna happen.

[uzijohn]

@bigtown,

I wish no evil on anyone, my comments are posted not to insult, but to make people think.

A hostile attitude toward business is a losing game, just having a basic understanding of economics and being reasonable will go a long way.

Detroit’s politicians and leaders ran the ship aground, a majority did vote them in, but union influence was overwhelming.

Here in California our flipped-out politicians are no better and we’re also paying the price!

[JBLovesJessicas]

if you people dont like us in detroit why bother coming here?? if you dont have nothing nice to say about us than dont bother to come!

[346gerard]

Fuck Everyone's Comments On Race Or Fucking Writing Skills. And Indian Reservation Is Run Better Than Any White, Black Or Spanish Place Here In America......Your U.S. Government And Your Citizens Are To Blame For Laziness And A Poor Economy. Get Rid Of The Government, Spics, Niggers And Shitty Fucking White Capitalistic Bastards! 

[xpurplexdrankx]

don't fucking come to Detroit and put shit down,, get your shit rocked.

[charango2010]

what a horrible city :S

[vitralizer]

Remember: most of Detroit isn't within Detroit. There is still the Metro areas.

[MrDrNo1]

so do they still film tool time there? or did they fire Tim Taylor and move to Los Angeles

[MrDrNo1]

its sad how Detroit pretty much is a ghost town

[FGalaxie]

All American whites talking big on this video go back to EUROPE.

Thats what you really are, Europeans.

your country is only 200 years old ffs.

[MrDrNo1]

@FGalaxie 235 actually.

[siuwed]

I am surprised that you survived the making of this video. Maybe I will go to the wonderful country that you came from and make a video of how great life is there.

[AutotunedGuy]

even buffalo isn't that bad

[MadinaNolen]

Making the USA a better place one city, street , and building at a time madinablogs . ucoz . com (without the spacing and go to blog its the last one.) Please help. Help set up a group to help Detroit. Help the people please its all I ask of anyone with a heart .We don't need your money just your advice and people to take action. !

[heylanas]

Guys, I don't know much about Detroit. Can someone tell me, what happened? Why is the glass in windows of houses broken like someone was dying to get out? Someone please give me some information.

[nihaal142]

@heylanas all the houses are like that cuz it was poorly maintained. there is lots of houses with shattered windows cuz maybe there was a strike when gm laid off lots of ppl

[MrDrNo1]

@heylanas when glass isnt maintained it shatters. what most likely happened was gangsters got together with some rocks and through them at the windows. ever since our auto industry started going bankrupt Detroit began to fail. i think the Big Auto Company's should move out of detroit but if they do drastic economic changes would take place and Detroit would fully become a ghost town.

[cArNeGiEization]

Mother fucker.... If you don't stay in Detroit.. U need to keep your fuckin mouth shut. I've had it with seeing this shit from fuckin jackasses who really don't have any business reporting anything that has to do with Detriot. My tank is on empty.

[mlynch001]

Two Words . . . . "Atlas Shrugged"

Read it and Learn!

[ScottInVa1760]

I wonder why (unions) all those (unions) jobs left (unions) Detroit? Any (unions) idea?  How about... UNIONS!!!!?!?!???

[vanvanbluz]

Well, there are different levels of american citizenship, If your parents are illegal, then i don't consider you a citizen. THey probably hopped the border. Nice video though.

[paulgarilao]

@vanvanbluz Hello Vanvan. My Dad is an American citizen. I am working in the United States Navy, serving our country.

[vanvanbluz]

@paulgarilao If your father is a citizen, then obviously you are a citizen too! WTF are you talking to me for? I never called you an illegal!

[inDpendant]

@vanvanbluz ok. your grandaddys came over on a boat!............killed millions of indians!....made corrupt laws that took away indigenous peoples lands away, ......and made it illegal for anyone else to do it!.............and not only did they take these lands.....they invented the satanic CIA to pilfer and plunder the rest of the world!............and now that they are done with the world.......its your turn....your own CIA will enslave your children!.....with your tax dollars!...dumbass!

[vanvanbluz]

@inDpendant You have some nerve! If you are from some latin american country, or your background is from there, THEN YOU HAVE SOME NERVE! You can not talk to me like that without being a huge hypocrite! It was latin america that taught all of us how to be colonialist and how to disenfranchise and destroy the indigenous populations of the world! You latinos feel so comfortable looking to your colonialist spanish culture and pretending to be indigenous! YOU ARE EUROPEAN COLONIALISTS!

[inDpendant]

@vanvanbluz ............whatever!.........­.the British used spanish ships!............Columbus was Italian!......and was there to the bidding of the european whites, and the catholic church!

[paulgarilao]

@vanvanbluz negative votes? Check out, 60 likes and 8 dislikes. Know how to count.

[MichRockHop81108]

youre there ridin the bus n shit walkin around, its wonder some nigs didnt rush up and rob your ass.

[ADR1991]

@MichRockHop81108 Thats what I was thinking. Gotta be careful. If you look outta place they wont hesitate to stick a gun to your head.

[bunnybooties]

I heard they wanna bulldoze a lot of abandoned neighborhoods in Detroit and convert it into farmland. I have a feeling that Detroit will be just the beginning. The same will be done to the rest of the cities after 90% of the world is depopulated. It's known as the green/ sustainability movement to the NWO.

[captkirkconnell]

Detroit should be a major course in Highschool. The time line of City, state, Police, County and federal labor related laws along with a timeline of the economic conditions of detroit.

It will be great when it finally totally clapses and the city government is gone, It is a great location and another great city could form BUT need to CHANGE THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY go back to the Philosophy that built Detroit- go back at least to pre Kenedy and King Assainations- best to go Pre 1913.

[captkirkconnell]

The Jobs did not disappear. The Jobs were destroyed by a political philosophy that is not sustainable. Umm the EXPERIMENT DID NOT WORK. oops!

[wwefanworld]

Did you row a boat from China to America? 

[paulgarilao]

I am an American citizen, dude

[bigtown]

@paulgarilao NO way, since when?

[damnatureufkdup]

@paulgarilao....hahahahahahaha­...you tell that pompous (and stupid) ass, paulgarilao!

[hockbb61]

I cant understand you...........go back to your country

[beerborn]

What is a Pinoy doing in Detroit?

[Epica124]

try more like it's being trying to recover for the past 30 some odd years.

[Trashfished]

Yeah we the king of ghetto! Thats why I live out in the sticks! Hey, love goin up to Canada once in awhile. cheers.

[1988scottcarey]

American Ghettos make our Canadian ones look like Suburbs

[wwefanworld]

@1988scottcarey Canadians...you think that you're protected from Blacks? No, after the U.S. Mexicans and blacks are coming straight to you Canada! You're going to suffer the same fate!

[Houshalter]

My dad used to drive to Detroit everyday on one of his routes. He said he would count the rats as they ran across the road.

[henerymag]

Is this where they film Life After People?

[Jow45metal]

That is why the Lions never reach the playoffs...

[erectionaffection]

reminds me of asbury park n.j.

[ewoods819]

welcome to my hometown

how u like it?

[henerymag]

@ewoods819 Pretty sad.

[henerymag]

@ewoods819 Pretty sad.

[juggla56]

its not just the auto industry that effected detroit. its the uaw and theyre corupted policies and the corupted politicians in detroit that made it that way. and it definitely doesnt help that the citizens voted for a thug to be major not only once but twice

[peppersdog1]

motown to ghost town

[DewbieHaut]

It will recover only to turn back into agricultural development

[evelutionofone]

@DewbieHaut

I totally agree--I grew up there--the richest kindest soil in the world--back to what it was meant to be---and oh yea--when cars run on magnets and fuel they will make cars again (and they know how now) Oil is OVER

[evelutionofone]

@DewbieHaut

I totally agree--I grew up there--the richest kindest soil in the world--back to what it was meant to be---and oh yea--when cars run on magnets and watel they will make cars again (and they know how now) Oil is OVER

[BoyScout1960]

Detroit is well on its way to being reclaimed by nature. Eventually it will once again be forests and fields.

[joeguinn39]

good job

[DAALLMIGHTYEYE]

THE AMERICAN DREAM !! LMAO WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA 2012

[rolficus]

henry ford will roll over in his grave at the site of this it is a shame to see such waste and decline !

[TheSpoiled93]

I from detroit I give it three more years before detroit be put off the map

[ElliotLakeCanada]

@TheSpoiled93 seriously? i would never of thought that would happen Detroit? shit its massive isnt it

[bigtown]

@TheSpoiled93 why do you think that huh? because that's what you want? In three years you'll still be a dumb ass.

[TheSpoiled93]

@bigtown Look at the news DUMB ASS that is why I think that...my whole family live there why would I want that the happen smart one and in three years I will be your lawyer trying to get you off for murder or selling drugs...because that is what half of everyone down there do :D...I graduate top of my high school class n now attending UNLV DUMB ASS...

[bigtown]

@TheSpoiled93 I'm a Database Administrator, in Detroit, go figure. Nope, no drug dealing for me. Why don't you take the your redneck family and take them to vegas. BTW Vegas is in economic trouble, idiot.

[paul734]

@TheSpoiled93 Please, there are still Fortune 500 companies downtown.

[waffenshroodle]

Pripyat anyone?

[ytertyu]

screw ecomonists ..aren't we here in the first place becoz of those mothefuckers ..outsourcing American jobs to mexico ,china , taiwan ,india , korea ..ecomonists , CEO assholes , and wall street crooks told us is good thing to do that

[raiiderhead]

@ytertyu I agree with you 100% dude. The only thing we make alot of in this country is babys and unemployment. All these countys that you listed hate our guts. How is unemployment going to get better when American jobs go over seas more and more every year. And it does not help when American people buy foreign cars. Or that American car companys send jobs over seas, Or have parts sent here from over seas, Or have the whole car made outside of the country.

[novemberoverhaul]

OBAMAVILLE

[bam6956]

I have an idea why not take the 50 000 troops that are in Germany bring them to detroit to take don all these buildings that need to be demolished the gov is already paying for them why not do something that will benefit ppl instead of bases in countries with no need of being there plus it would speed up the process and would get the city cleaned up quickly just a thought

[EconCat88]

Detroit tanked a long time ago. The auto industry falling isnt the only reason why Detroit collapsed.

[bulletman100]

it will easily take 20 years or more.

[MrSchizoaffective]

that city not gonna recover in 400 to 500 years

[lagnobob]

@MrSchizoaffective in that time it will be nothing but ancient ruins.

[tylersilverchoice]

its taken detroit decades to get like it is it will take decades to repair. this isn't a new story to detroit its been like this for twenty years i mean look at those houses. you should also take a look at southern cali businesses going vacant and a lot of houses look like detroit just newer.

[Cdogpyjamas]

Hey good video. Yes its definately going to take longer than 5 years definately. You can buy some absolute bargain property in Detroit so it might attract more people as a cheap place to live.

[jimbobubbadj]

I agree with 123, It will take much longer than 5 years for recovery. I feel that it will take decades.

[1236612]

I disagree that it will take four to five years for Detroit to recover. I think it'll take a lot longer than that.

[gnihcnop]

nice report kapatid! im proud of you!

[nicoalcedera]

impressive paul

[paulgarilao]

the only problem i have is that I have a shaky hand. I will bring a tripod next time

[earllouie13]

nice video kuya paul! I'll subscribe :)