Which Major City is Prone to Become The Next Detroit? (rates, America)

[knowledgeiskey]

When I mean the next detroit, I mean it is prone to have a weak economy that leads people to leave the city, and it endures urban/suburban decay.

[mas23]

[stinkytofu10]

The next Detroit? So which city will become one of the most historically important cities in the US - if not the world? Which city will literally transform the way the world moves and provide some of the greatest musical talents ever?

[*Sweetkisses*]

Originally Posted by stinkytofu10

The next Detroit? So which city will become one of the most historically important cities in the US - if not the world? Which city will literally transform the way the world moves and provide some of the the greatest musical talents ever?

[detroitlove]

Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey

When I mean the next detroit, I mean it is prone to have a weak economy that leads people to leave the city, and it endures urban/suburban decay.

so why didn't you just ask this instead of including Detroit?

[davidals]

Oh if if if.

If the US Navy suddenly becomes completely irrelevant, Norfolk is outta business.

If Silicon Valley becomes the Quartz Belt (silicon doesn't rust), then San Jose, Austin, RDU, and Boston should all hang up their hats.

If a hurricane the size of the Great Red Spot stalls on top of Miami and disintegrates everything standing, then it would definitely be Miami.

If people decide that we don't need no education, then Boston, Durham, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Athens, Boulder, Austin, Gainesville, Champaign/Urbana, Iowa City, Missoula, and a buncha others I'm too lazy to think up are destined to go straight down the tubes.

If Greenland melts, then lookout Boston, NYC, Norfolk, Wilmington (all the Wilmingtons), Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, and parts of several West Coast cities (yup - another Wilmington). You're all gonna be one big swatch of landfill soup.

If Mount Rainier or Mount Hood opt to wake up and throw half a glacier 40 miles away (they could, if they wanted to), then Portland or Tacoma are in deep ****. Pompeii II - The New Millennium.

If steak and corn were revealed to be neurotoxic carginogens that cause one to give birth to cyclops mutants, then pretty much any city on the Plains will revert to where the buffalo roam fairly quickly.

If all Americans - depression style - decide to keep their money in their mattresses, then lookout Charlotte. You'll be looking like a bigger, fatter Camden, NJ in a New York minute.

If cannabis spontaneously went extinct, then Asheville, Boulder, whatever city is up in Mendocino, plus every store that sells blunts would all spontaneously implode in some kinda antimatter black hole, composed entirely of jonesing stoners, praying to Jerry Garcia for salvation.

This should narrow things down.

[Nineties Flava]

Originally Posted by davidals

Oh if if if.

If the US Navy suddenly becomes completely irrelevant, Norfolk is outta business.

If Silicon Valley becomes the Quartz Belt (silicon doesn't rust), then San Jose, Austin, RDU, and Boston should call it quits.

If a hurricane the size of the Great Red Spot stalls on top of Miami and disintegrates everything standing, then it would definitely be Miami.

If people decide that we don't need no education, then Boston, Durham, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Athens, Boulder, Austin, Gainesville, Champaign/Urbana, Iowa City, Missoula, and a buncha others I'm too lazy to think up are destined to go straight down the tubes.

If Greenland melts, then lookout Boston, NYC, Norfolk, Wilmington (all the Wilmingtons), Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, and parts of several West Coast cities (yup - another Wilmington). You're all gonna be one big swatch of landfill soup.

If Mount Rainier or Mount Hood opt to wake up and blow half a glacier 40 miles away, then Portland or Tacoma are in deep ****.

If steak and corn were revealed to be neurotoxic carginogens that cause one to give birth to cyclops mutants, then pretty much any city on the Plains will revert to where the buffalo roam fairly quickly.

This should narrow things down.

I see what you did there

[davidals]

Originally Posted by Nineties Flava

I see what you did there

Oh yeah. This thread is fun. And we haven't even had any vociferous, argumentative defenses of anything yet. But the night is still young, and this thread could easily grow into something world class.

[Nineties Flava]

As far as this thread goes, I'd have to say Las Vegas. That city really does not have much going for it outside of the strip. Downtown Vegas is mostly parking lots and right below it is nothing but pawn shops, bail bonds and drive-thru marriages so its only a matter of time before the rest of the city catches up.



Could you help me out? I can't find any parking.

Las Vegas - Google Maps


This is what the strip did to the area right above it.


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...65.18,,0,-0.53

[urbancharlotte]

Which Major City is Prone to Become The Next Detroit?

Cleveland!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM